Street-car to Orchard Park – thence  walk to Chestnut Ridge Park and beyond, and thence to Hamburg – This was reversing my usual order in taking this walk and it was more enjoyable so – the long walk from Chestnut Ridge to Orchard Park offers little for the eye and I usually had it at the last end of the hike when tired – Today, however, I gave over this monotonous stretch to the pure physical joy of walking vigorously and by the time I reached the summit I was in a mellow state of mind-
     Get dinner at lunch room in Orchard Park (pea soup – roast beef, corm, potatoes and gravy – cucumber and tomato on lettuce – apple pie – coffee) Feeling rather stuffed I started out briskly to walk it off –
     A mild October-like day with a fresh calm blue watery sky – how the season has advanced – now the sunlight comes from lower down in the south and has a brighter more direct light on things-
     The intense quiet of Autumn is over the land – what causes this peculiar stagnation? -true there are insects singing (no frost yet this year) but somehow  they only seem to accentuate the profound silence – The heavy rains and unusual warm of September has created a different color scheme over the countryside – there are great quantities of fresh green in the fields, which makes a beautiful foil for the inevitable browness of August killed grasses and wild carrot – Purple asters are for the same reason especially luxuriant, and there are few more beautiful sights than their rich mauve scattered thru fields of light brown-dried grass – more usual in color scheme but none-the-less beautiful are the asters growing with goldenrod – I stood looking at one such a grouping, and with the bright sunlight[1]