Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

38.                Mar 3 – Tues.

     A blizzard that rages all day, the snow wet and heavy.  Building “laboratory” for Art’s chemical experiments.[i]

                   Mar. 4 – (Wed.)

     Clean, brilliant sunshiny day after the storm – “Singing Caverns in the blue North Sky” –

     Photographer out at 1:00 to make pictures for “American Artist.” I had to do considerable shoveling (sic) before we could get to the studio.

     Late P.M. Art and Cathie shovel out the drive.

     Evening to church. – The great piles of snow around the parking place. 8 – 10 feet high – the deep starry sky overhead (a feeling of far North Country) –

     One of my favorite Lenten hymns on the list “Oh Bleeding head and wounded” in which in the new hymn-books “bleeding” has been changed to “sacred –[ii]

                   Mar. 5, (Thurs)-

Dreams –

(1)         One of enormous caves, one a huge cone-like cavity as I imagine the interior of a wasps-nest might look; opposite it a deep black cave.

– Walking east across country South of Orangeburg, came to the cheese-factory road, where I see that the whole countryside eastward is strangely without snow. Spring - plowing has even been going on in a field adjoining the road. In a low place where the field run (sic) along a wood, I see two men standing by an old barn. As I walked toward them they scowled at me; and when I came up they told me to get out; that they knew what I was snooping around for. I suspected they were fleeing from the police; and later