August 8, 1914
graphite pencil on commercially-made lined paper
5 13/16 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
-dids on all sides; Grasshoppers clipper up in spiral flight. The Brook shows a bright patch of smartweed.(HT)Saw some robins in a wild cherry tree, feeding on the ripe fruit. Thus are the seeds scattered. Like the cherry tree, the robins have become faded & scrawny.(HT)Nearing Nigger Mill, the sight of the green glittering wil¬lows marking the Beaver-channel in itself is cooling. The road her is being macadamized. Cross fence north of creek and skirting corn-field come to pastury meadows. Ideal pasturage for cows