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
as his right foreleg has been partially severed - and proceeds to eat both meat & bread. How alert he is! He’s apparently engrossed in feeding, my slightest move puts him on his guard.I notice the bottoms are perfectly still.(HT)And so I lie for a long time dreaming in the wind.The limbs of a chestnut do not wave - it has comparatively few small limbs & the larger ones are stiff. Thus the wind only has effect on the leaves and appears to blow swifter in a chestnut than any other tree.(HT)There are few sounds, other