Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " by today in a thick shower of feathery bunches of star-flakes. Today was a fairy day - the nature of the storm brought a smile from the walker – so light and buoyant, they had the character of sunlight; falling so softly (there was scarce a wind) they rested on the trees branches like careful butterflies; they evaded the downcoming foot and flew aside in tiny gusts. / The note of a nut-hatch stirring for food on an elm was the expressive “sound” of "