June 3 - July 25, 1914
commercially-made lined paper notebook
5 7/8 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
ditches aglow with the yellow of moneywort. Less plentiful but more conspicuous are various species of St. John’s Wort. Yarrow is whitening.(LF)(HT)(HT)An expression of June - common white daisies which spot the road here and there all along but in one place an old deserted orchard we found a colony of them. They made us pause & exclaim. The white clouds in the sky are but their dim reflection. I wondered why a bobolink did not come up from their mist and sing.(LF)(HT)(HT)Wheat is ripening and the winded rattles finely that their drying seedheads sounding