Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

the willows, the ripples catch the light. Something in their irregularity causes some of the spots to travel in half-completed circles, looking like the courses of whirligig-beetles. Others stationary, & flash like fireflies. They are fascinating & seem things of life.(HT)Feathery willows lean far out over the edge and thus we can imagine we are in a vast body of water - these but islands.(HT)The water is brightest some paces south, at the base of the hill where it turns, and grows dimmer at our feet.