Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " Two kinds of black beetles eating seeds of ragweed. Numerous. Breeding. / Clover reblooming. The blossom seems pinker. Ragweed & spanish needle (yellow starred attain conspicuity by their numbers. / Lesser cinquefoil reddening. / Small flock of mourning doves. Startle upwards in hooked beaked whistling whirr into the blueish wind. / It was not until I was coming home in the rose afterglow that I realized I had been to heaven. / There were times when, as I sketching, only the joy "