October 25, 1914
graphite on lined paper
5 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
[inscription reads] We talk till 1 or 2, on God and humanity. 8. A.M. with Bob Travis and Beda eastward on hike. A wonderful day deep blue sky, pure white clouds, with wind blowing straight from out of the deep blue distant Lake Erie. Time spent in talking on poetry, science or art or other subjects, eating stolen pears, apples or grapes the while. / I can not speak rationally of the joy the beauty of the day inspired in me. Dreaming, I seemed always in childhood’s fairy-