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
with its cool creek & shade afforded by beeches elms + buttonwood. As I entered this field, I am welcomed by the guttural yipings of a sheit-poke. While I am standing under a beech, I hear a frantic scrambling behind me which, on turning I percieve to be that of a woodchuck, making all possible haste to reach his hole, where he scurries in unceremoniously. This discovery leads to my noticing two trees; an elm and a buttonwood, whose trunks at the base had become welded together.(HT)What could be more