Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] bears my weight precariously. A carrion -rove beetle running nimbly over the ice. Alder-berries – brilliant. / Moths fluttering in the starred cat-tails, covered with sun-haze. / Spider - strands. / To Creek-full and green. Rove-beetles on its surface, A rustle breeze from south - Sky a deep blue - a songsparrows sings from the yellow willows upstream. Noon sunlight streaming across the distant blue hazy wooded hills yellowed the grass edged stream. Sound of train in distance. / Proceed north - pair of cardinals - quick flipping movements. Songsparrows sing constantly a feeling of early spring.