Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Pussy-Willows, 1936, watercolor on paper mounted on heavy cardboard, 32-15/16 x 25-1/4 inches, Munson Museum, Utica, NY, Edward W. Root Bequest, 57.104
P.M. – walk up along the creek for pussy-willows –
Altho sunny, it is more wintry than I had expected –
Large slabs of ice from the recent thaw piled in great confusion in the secondary creek-bed – footprints showed me that others had been able to cross it, and so I ventured onto it, and with only slip managed to get to more solid land near the main stream – it was good to be tramping about in the snow.
I got a few sprays of pussy willows – but they had not started pith at all, as they had last year at this time –
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, February 10, 1954