Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

taken away to make room for the coffin – A center table was put into its proper place the undertakers came and removed the potted palms. ; ; ; ; ; Dec. 21 1920 –; Today is a Zero day, and as was fitting the faraway sun died early on a bank of snow-clouds. The sky became a heavy yellow-gray, and the snow was the only source of light: it cast upward a reflection on the underside of bark at the trees bases like the glow from a grate-fire, only this was a ghastly cold light – At dusk a blizzard came out of the South-east. ; ; ; ; ; Dec. 28, 1920 –; There is this difference between winter and summer – In summer light always seems to come from above, no matter whether the day is cloudy or clear, but in the winter the sky closes in like a heavy curtain, and the only source of light is the snow – So summer