I longed to take a trip to the woods!  When it became light, I looked out I saw that everything, trees, bushes posts and wires were coated white with hoarfrost, that rendered the scene weird and beautiful, with the blue sky overhead yellowing in the east.  As I went out to go to work, I examined more closely the frost on the porch posts.  Little fern like shoots jutted out everywhere with many smaller star-like formations, woven into all sorts of designs.  The frost of the tree branches was finer and fuzz like.  Trees thus coated were beautiful.  The yellow sun – just rising lit up everything.  A common place would had been transformed into a fairyland.  Down on Depot St I noticed how wonderful, an elm, naturally beautiful looked.  Every bending drooping branch was whitened with frost while the larger limbs, and trunk were black.  A row of poplars near here two was beautiful.
     Tomorrow is Valentine Day.  I only sent four - - “ugly” ones; to Joe, to Bill, to King and to Ray Williams.  I almost gave myself away by stamping them with Mullins stamping machine, the stamps of which are not unperforated like common stamps.  Of