Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Naturally I became very much interested. So I hastened in to the front bed-room and found the four fellows hanging on to a rope and opposite end of which was knotted to the girls door. And so it went on. I don’t know when we finally went to sleep.

                   Sunday August 31, 1913

     Inconsistent as the statement may seem, I can only describe today contradictory terms, as bright and cloudy. There are days when the clouds, however dense, have a certain vague lumin­osity, which did we not look upwards towards the sky, would make us think the sun were shining. Clouds today went by in allotments a clear space coming at noon, of which the sun took advantage and beat down mercilessly.

     I took a walk around thru the garden early in the morning. Morning glory vines are in a sad condition - leaves yellowed and curling -  but the flowers themselves are a splendid contrast, for the