August 23, 1913
commercially made, lined paper notebook
8 5/16 x 6 13/16 inches
Charles E. Burchfield Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
complement violet a close second. Our walk along this road is to be remembered for the great variety of colors. There was buff of the corn-tassels, lemon of wild sunflower, whitish lavendar of a raspberry stalk, glossy black of heavy clusters of hanging elderberry bunches, and the bright orange of spotted jewell-weed, lavendar of monkeyflower and delicate pink of great growth. of smart-weed. In great quantities were the dingey yellow of half-opened golden-rod clusters,blackish wine color of beet leaves, whitish green of buckwheat, the rusty reddish brown of dried yellow-dock stalks, and milky white of fungus coated milk-weed leaves, the dark green of velvety moss growing in yellow sulphurous mud,and the pure white of May weed.
We had not been on the road long until we met Frank Hise with whom Jim stopped to talk a few, moments. Shortly past here, we