Charles Burchfield, Journals, September 27, 1916

A day of great wind & atmosphere.

The landscape is all light – sky pale whitish blue & white; Trees covered with the white of overturned leaves –

Method of painting trees – flat wash of color impression of the season; & towards the center & shadow part of tree work in local color –

At evening hugeness to air – Trees speckled with overturned leaves; many trees are bright yellow; others are half turned & form patterns with the green ones -

As I walk along Certain things, certain markings on trees perhaps, catch my eye; all the other objects are seen indistinctly or not at all.

Thus, we may have a scene with an intensely black tree & near it some ghostlike light trees indistinct.

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, September 27, 1916