08/16/1914
graphite pencil on lined paper
5 3/4 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
ing a neat cup like arrangement.(HT)Most of this field is in clover. Black swallow-tails attract the eye here & there, and gain silver spotted fritillaries; blow about by the wind. A fine sight are three sporting tiger swallow tails bouncing up over the trees.Coming to the Four Chestnuts I sit down on the grassy chest-nut bloom bespattered hill and eat my lunch. I was not the only one who feasted however. I observed three species of ants, crickets, a grasshoppers & a small black beetle feeding on the crumbs.I had not been here long when a sharp flutter told me that