And even when I can make up my mind to work on one definite picture, I made false moves, which have to be eliminated — So it was with the “August Sun and Spider-web tree” — I want a sun that is hot and blazing, overpowering, filling a hot burning sky, one that seems as if it would annihilate all things on a parched earth —
We were all set to go to visit the Connoisarauley Creek Falls today when the telephone rang – and I knew it would be Anna Olmsted & could not reasonably put her off – she said she & her cousin would be out “early afternoon”…
After 12 weekly preparatory classes at the Center, 22 new docents joined the ranks of our dedicated volunteer teaching guides.
Trip to Irondale- While looking at my 1920 picture of Irondale, I felt I had the germ there of a larger more important picture; and I suddenly was obsessed by the desire to look again from the hill where I made the study.
Are those exquisite rainbow colors in the sky the Autumnal colors in the forming to be brought down by a succession of frosts? Are they so pale + dreamy because we see them through our dense earthy atmosphere?...
As nowhere else in its course is the Beaver as densely lined with such luxuriant willows as here. Water vaguely sulphurous and flecked with brown scum. Sticktite in full bloom...
This morning my pleasant slumber was broken by Mother arousing Jim...
P.M – In studio, working on “August Twilight”...
P.M. Last day of class at Minn. point...
Monday we went to Washingtonville, where I showed him Pansy Allen’s stores (I had shown him at home the water-color made from them “Noon-day Heat”)