Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, Vol. 44, June 10, 1942

June 29. –
Evening – Great thunderheads moving majestically thru the Southern Sky – tops lit up by the sun, long below the horizon.
Later, at night (near midnight) vast storms in the S.W., S. & S.E – intense dead heat – in back yard – constant brilliant sheet lightning, overlapping in fitful waves; very little thunder.
In bed, —the lightning increases in brilliance, almost continuous— the wind rises, the poplar tree outside my window, a writhing tortured black many fingered mass, with wild lightning curling around it— (trees– crazy black trees shapes, outlines with phosphorescent yellow and emerald, against the wind white) —
I felt all the thrill of 1915.
— Charles E. Burchfield, June 29, 1945