Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, August 15, 1962

…All day in the studio, finishing the work I started yesterday — Studying the bat picture which evoked the Teegarden lighting picture ‒ this keeps nagging at me, altho I keep thinking of the moonlight picture envisioned last night, and an “Over the Waves” picture (butterflies over a clover-field in late summer) – the latter could be a September picture – Perhaps I may be able to start the bat picture tomorrow –

We ate out lunch under the willow (I went down to the Hut and got wieners and hamburgers —) Very pleasant, a trifle on the cool order — For the first time in our lives we heard the song of a gold-finch — heretofore we had just heard the chipping song they use in flight. This was a charming combination of trills and warbling – he kept singing over and over again, pausing but a second between outbursts. He was perched in a high branch of the pear tree —

After eating we strolled to the back of the lot, to look at Mrs. Hackford’s garden. Our “wild” apple tree astonished us. (We call it “wild” because it grew from a seed) – It had a dozen or more apples – all of them an incredibly rich red, and glistening as if polished with wax- a beautiful sight. In fact it almost looked as if they were artificial.

End of the day music – Dvorák’s Quartet #8 (Opus 106) - Reproduction somewhat dated, but what beautiful music! I call it the Zimmerman Road Quartet (!) because I first got it when I was so engrossed in painting on that road (I regarded it as an outdoor studio) in August and September.

And the Czech Suite Opus 39-

Charles E. Burchfield, August 15, 1962