Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

den today.

     The scent and taste of ground-cherries intoxicating combin­ations of the same qualities of all other berries that have gone before. Nature gives us the strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, goose-berry, huckle-berry, elder-berry and a host of others for us to wonder at and delight in; and then, when we imagine the berry feast is down, she gives us this most tantalizing bit of all - the ground-cherry.

     Saturday I confirmed “Zebra Long-horn” as really a long horn. I found them in likely quantities on golden-rod blossoms, and by some chance held one up to my ear, and discovered that he was “singing” like an asparagus or milkweed long-horn, as we were wont in childhood, to call that peculiar rasping sound they made on being picked up. Perhaps this is a Golden-rod long-horn but to me shall always remain the Zebra.

     Orange rose-fruit contrasts finely with the faded wash out rose-leaves.