Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

of the exact kind of leaves which have been of late thickly speckling the jaded lawns, dusty sidewalks and dustier pavements. Indeed and I may have looked closely at the leaves dozens of times but their effect only remained upon me. Their Fall-like odor and the rustle of them as stirred by the wind or hurrying heedless feet, and the sight of them as they mottle the ground with yellow, leaves a greater impression on me than - what kinds are they? But for the sake of concrete knowledge I determined to find out what trees first commenced to moult. Heading the list I must put the Large-leaved Poplars, closely followed by silver birches and basswood all of which are shedding in such great numbers as to almost conceal the earth’s surface. In lesser quantities come the leaves of silver maple and walnut.

Shortly after the sun had reached the meridian, the rolling thunderheads that had