Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

character - comes up the street in columns of mist. We stand on front porch.All at once a flash of lightning & a crackle of thunder that whipped thru the length and breadth of the air - the cloud is sent! The terrific cloudburst that followed was on the most stirring sights I ever saw. Our eyes were dazed yet with lightning, our ears thrummed with thunder when the air became a snowy avalanche of rain – at moments all things were blotted out in the white air, again paw-