Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

91. Goes goes on .... There are three dogs asleep under the kitchen table; all three belong to different owners, and neither one to A---.” (Journal of Disappointed Man)-

June 11, 1935 (Tuesday)

“..... It commenced to rain, and the rain brought down the dusk; in the fading light I wandered along the ‘Dutchmans Hill’..... hearing bird songs in the rainy dusk… the rain ceased and the dusk became deeper all at once.... I found my first hepatica and the rain, resuming, pattered on the dead leaves... I almost knelt in worship before the flower - over the dark but strangely luminous field, with the rain full in my face – the moon shone forth but the rain increased – If the moon shining on rain-drops should cause a rain-bow it would be a wreath of hepaticas!” (My diary –April 1, 1917)- Like the writing of another person than myself – and alas, I believe it is.

June 12, 1935-

     My notes on the mood of the Elevators Picture, written a couple years ago:

     All the romance of lake–shipping – of sailing to far ports the wide open freedom of the harbor when the ice is gone,