Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Beauty of worm-eaten elm. It was a peculiar elm, for trunks & large limbs instead of being free, was covered with tiny bunches of leafy twigs. The worms have left little more than the veins and gives the tree a lacy fuzzy look - rather fairylike.While sitting here a pair of catbirds grew anxious and eye me suspiciously “meowing” the while. A woodthrush gives “yodeling call.” Nothing quite so beautiful. Sounds as if a bell made from the silver under the dewdrop on a jewelweed was made to ring by a drop of dew falling from an arrowhead flower. It would have to be done