Aug. 15 to 18 -
     Trip to Bald EagleValley–
     Aug. 15 – By auto with Carl. W. to Beech Creek – a fresh morning – as day advances and we get further south a terrifically hot cloudless day – a sensation of rapidly rushing up and down smoothly road up and down, with the hot sun beating down on barren rolling wooded hills –
     Stop for lunch at Emporium –
     Arrive at Beech Creek about 3 – Mrs. Schwartz – welcomes me – her daughter and two little children visiting her –
     Carl on toState Collegeafter making arrangements to come over next day at10:00–
     Altho on first coming in midafternoon thru the hot valley it seemed less romantic, by nightfall with the insect chorus going full tilt, all the glamour of the wide remote valley returned and filled me with joy – Evening walk out along road northwest a ways the dark woods along the road and the dark evening smells coming out of it – a rosy afterglow sky beyond the dark blue hills to the N.W.  Back by way of railroad – Moonrise over the mountains.
     Aug. 16 – after breakfast with pencil and sketchbook to main road.
     8:30-  meet Tom Cook there who is pleased to see me again and I him, so that it gives me a warm glow –
     Cross Bald Eagle Creek to railroad and down railroad toward Blanchard – a quiet hot day – the world seems burning up – the look of the smiling country side beyond the creek stirs old memories in me – the hillside back of me with tall slanting mid-morning sunlight falling diagonally across its dies – heat mists – now and then gaunt tobacco-brown houses rear themselves up, with fishy blue-gray windows – ragged children –
     Eagleville Station, which was name of Blanchard before some rural Babbit got busy – the odd dark brown house which I make mental note of – Cross creek again on old iron bridge – sketching dying plants in the hot sun – thru  Blanchard – hazy lacy like locusts casting pale shadows on a red-ochre lane –