Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, September 30, 1931

The intense quiet of Autumn is over the land – what causes this peculiar stagnation? True there are insects singing (no frost yet this year) but somehow they only seem to accentuate the profound silence – The heavy rains and unusual warm of September has created a different color scheme over the countryside – there are great quantities of fresh green in the fields, which makes a beautiful foil for the inevitable browness of August killed grasses and wild carrot – Purple asters are for the same reason especially luxuriant, and there are few more beautiful sights than their rich mauve scattered thru fields of light brown-dried grass – more usual in color scheme but none-the-less beautiful are the asters growing with goldenrod – I stood looking at one such a grouping, and with the bright sunlight pouring around me from behind, I felt I could not look enough.

Charles E. Burchfield, September 30, 1931