Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

streamers on tips of bulrushes. A species of grasshopper eats away the outer skin leaving the white fibrous pithy interior.(HT)It was here we saw a pair of sparrow-hawks sporting in the air. What a wild poetical flight. When the mushroom bursts that filmy skin which connects its edge with the stem, thru which the pink can be seen, some of that fungus silver flies up into the air and silvers the hawk’s flight. Their flight seems a pastime. Now they mount to a certain height against the wind and with a snappy floppy turn, glides