Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, August 4, 1945

To Pipe Creek on the Hayes Hollow Rd. (S.E. of West Falls) sketching – a fine vigorous day with clear blue sky & white cumulus clouds from the North, and a strong cool wind blowing.

To forefront of Ravine at first. Find a Cicada grub and watch it emerge. Many hemlocks here – various mushrooms & lichens. It recalls to me the woods Bentleys & Farquhar’s woods, as they seemed to me when I was reading “Queen Zixi of Ix” as a boy. Also the 1917 Post’s Woods.

Eat lunch under a maple by the road (Beef & peanut butter sandwiches, vegetable soup, olives, cookies, fruit & coffee.)

Sketch of hemlocks, telephone pole with winddriven (sic) white clouds, with Queen-Anne’s Lace & clover in front.

Late afternoon, south and westward, park on narow a narrow dirt road. The vast blue of the north sky above a fleet of great cumulus clouds rolling along the horizon, with wind-blown oats in front of the blue gray bases of the clouds. To the S.E. the Queen-Anne’s Lace against a cloud speckled sky.

Home by 6:30.

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, August 4, 1945