Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, July 3, 1942

July 3 - Get out the "Wheat field + Maple" to study it. In this picture, there is, in the distance beyond the wheat field, a number of groups of trees with a vista between them. I get two feelings from these; one is of Southeast on a hot July midmorning - looking across harvested fields from the worn porch of a farmhouse, where there is heard the cheerful clatter of kitchen activity - the vista to the southeast extends to infinity. The other is over a number of groves to the Northeast; just around the edge of one is seen a wide misty valley extending out to the infinite, a vast unknown, undiscovered land, thousands of miles in extent. One boy might say to another, "Let's see today, what is beyond that woods to the Northeast"