Charles Burchfield, Journals, April 20, 1916

Big morning – shower in night – great romantic sky – big rounded thunderheads rich pale OY in sun – fore-glow; Sun lights up clouds masses shortly after a heavy driving white shower – queer saffron east, overhanging dk BV clouds – Dk houses and trees silhouetted against yellow – rain spray on roofs and pavement –
Clears – Romantic silvery thunderheads – A hazy warm day – Birds – hazy streaked sky – violet in air -
A wild thunderstorm at late afternoon – yellow sky, dk queer BV and white rhythms, overhead – fierce gusts of wind as in a snowstorm – white sheets of driving rain – sky become grey-green – ground white + hazy with rain spray – rain-rhythms in air, huge blinding snakes of lightning and roaring of thunder increase in fury –
Lasts longs and clears slowly and gradually – sky richly blending background, orange, a wonderful blue haze in air – a green film on willows and apple trees – other trees startling white buds – Poplars dense with enlarging bloom – wonderful blue and green reflections in Pond – sun a hazy white glow appears – rich RV earth –
Away from sun – brilliant poplar bloom up against grey-blue storm sky –
At a flash of lightning in a rainstorm have trees dkr at this point.

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, April 20, 1916