Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

violently for a few minutes. There is a big silver maple on High St. which seems more susceptible to the wind than the other trees The slightest breeze sends its frond-like boughs waving wildly. Seen thru a streaky rainsoaked air, the trees against the dissol­ving sky had added beauty. The supreme moment of the storm is when the whole sky is a smooth unbroken grey and the rain is falling heavily downward.How quickly we are apt to measure the world by our horizon! I said the whole sky where probably my east & west horizons are scarce half