April 11, 1938 Monday-
     B & I with M.A, Sally & Catherine to Buffalo to buy Easter outfits for the three.
                                                                             April 12, 1938-
     Catherine and I to the Trillium Woods. On the way in, the farmer plowing warns us against harming the fences. A warm hazy day. We spend a happy hour digging plants and wandering around. The march of sunlit spring - beauties among the dead leaves.
     Before returning we rest a bit, & eat oranges & crackers, the rain is threatening.
     As we pass the farmer, he “bawls us out” for digging plants without his permission. I try the “soft answer” method, agreeing with all he said; and it worked. And of course, all right was on his side. However the idyllic quality of the excursion was destroyed.
                                                                              April 13, 1938-
      PM. Sally, Arthur and I to little woods near Orchard Park. This time we take the precaution of asking permission first, which was readily granted by this owner, who was a young pleasant faced man.
The woods a low swampy one, cut by channels which had been dug to drain the outlying fields. We got baskets of hepaticas; coming back we discover frog eggs in a pool. We take our baskets to the car; and were lucky enough to find an empty cast off milk bottle, with which we went back to secure the eggs. We got almost a bottle full, with some toad eggs too.