bushes and saplings, and near the Bridge, the place is over run with bushes.  Towards these I now went.  As I came up a cardinal flew up and announced my arrival with his angry “Cht-Cht.”  A loud rattling tap attracted my attention next, which I found to be a downy woodpecker hunting food in ragweed stalks.  Hanging down from a tree I found the cocoon of the cecropia moth which I broke off.
     From Covered Bridge I started my return. A yellow pallor now seemed to spread over the western sky, and seemed to make the whole country glow faintly. When I came to the end of Pinehollow I cut up over the hills and made my way thru Post’s.  Again the sky became a deep grey over in the west and while it was lighter over in the east, and the effect was wierd.
     The snow started about supper-time.  I regret to say that I didn’t go out to see it, but knew it was snowing by the snow on Louise’s coat when she came in.