Charles Burchfield, Journals, November 9, 1941

A great blanket of cloud hangs over the earth this morning—except low in the south-east, where the intermittent sun lights up the horizon which has the appearance of the outside world as viewed from an immense cave. To the north, northwest, the clouds deepened in color to an ominous blue-gray, against which the houses lit up from the south, stood out in startling relief—The effect seemed to epitomize the whole drama of the retreat of summer & autumn, on the heels of the sun, and the black north of winter, about to engulf the land.

Charles Burchfield, November 9, 1941