Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

82. very hilarious. We liked "Moontide" so well we stayed for the second showing.[i]

                   July 11 -

     Studying the wheat-field picture and various odd-jobs around shed. Spotty is not so good.[ii]

                   July 12 - (Sunday) -

     P.M. - To Rice Rd to make studies of wheat field and maples - B + A - along with Pal. Then home to get Martha, and we all again, with Cathie, to country N.E. of Lancaster. Leave Martha and Cathie at a little cemetery, (where M. wants to make a drawing) while B + I + I drive around on Ransom + Ellicott Rd.

     On way home, we stop at a red-raspberry farm east of Town-line Rd, on Clinton - Cassel's - Mrs. Cassel had just two quarts left. She wanted to show us her patch (which was luxuriant, and well kept - Then she showed us all of her plants - her husband like myself, is a collector of "septarium" stones and he had a great many of them. We ordered a bushel of berries, which we can get next week.

     For Sunday night light, we had some of the raspberries on ice-cream -

     Spotty seems worse today, and I am faced with the necessity of putting an end to her misery.[iii]

                   July 13 -

     A dream -

     A large Hotel situated on the edge of a wild ravine - It is morning in July - My brother Joe and I have rooms in the hotel, Joe is working on a large illustration