Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, February 10, 1954

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