This morning was a wonderful morning. How I longed to take a trip to the woods! When it became light, I looked out I saw that everything, trees, bushes posts and wires were coated white with hoarfrost, that rendered the scene weird and beautiful, with the blue sky overhead yellowing in the east...
A.M. working on “Hepaticas” (1952) and putting it in its frame.
I think I see nature with a more complicated eye than earlier. Where once a fleet of clouds blown by a wind across the ragged sky was enough for me; now I look at it, troubled how best to put it down “on canvas”...
Got to work finally on the reconstructed (18 x 31 to 37 x 54) 1920 view of East Liverpool, which I am now planning to call “Sun, Moon and Star”.
A beautiful day. Winter’s own. At morning a heavy fog on the air. Every bush and tree finely coated with frost, which at once added weird beauty to nature. The snow and sky were peculiarly yellow as if filled with smoke.
A beautiful sunny shining like day—
P.M. sketch from the “top” of our lot S.W. winds. Prior to beginning everything seemed to go wrong, difficulty getting the easel out of the shed;
My season of inability to get down to really creative work continues –
A.M. walk –
A cold elastic wind out of the S.W. blows over the “ice-locked earth” – cottonwoods, Saplings, sunlit, gleam brilliantly yellow against the deep cobalt sky.
Started preliminary work on the Ohio River picture (which I have called “Freight Whistle Screaming along the Ohio River” – perhaps better could be “Memories of the Ohio River Country – 1920).
B & I to Gowanda & Big Woods – A brilliant sunny day – a feeling of early March. Stopped at Taylor’s to order maple syrup. (She said they would probably tap about March 1-...