Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, April 29, 1915

Cold wind in window, sunlit apple blossoms wind-tossed – song of yellow bird + oriole –  wind growing colder –

Walk to villa – sun glittered wind bending the emerald and yellow-green trees blue shadowed rippling grass – wind spray on frothy falls – wind whitened willows – yellow dandelions sparkling in the windy grass - wind in whitened apple-trees.  Late afternoon sun driven by wind turns the trees to transparent yellow-green –

It is an Elysian Day – I am feeling boundlessly happy – I can laugh at my morbid entry of several days ago – yet I feel so inanely joyous that I feel sure I must pay for it later –

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, April 29, 1915