Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 hours from the horizon & very bright and sparkling. The wind easy & fresh & seems inseparable from the sunlight. Leaves of jewell weed become transparently yellow-green.After all it is the unexpected sights which please the most & remain longest in our consciousness. All unawares I suddenly came upon a colony of cardinal flowers & gazed for a moment aim without breathing. True it was my pulse quickened. What a luminous red!  The eye cannot look at them & see a clear outline. They border edge