Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 — Wednesday — 10  Chilly—dark raining—In studio going over my 1916 Fall sketches—Two suggest longer pictures & made tentative enlargement of “Weather Moon”—a dark eerie picture——; Thursday — 11 B made candy for church bazaar, which along with M’s I took out shortly after noon. B & I to church supper at 5:30. Good clam-chowder but the ham not so good. Bought a few things afterward. Then home, changed clothes & to gallery for chamber music concert. I was not attune, half of the time I didn’t listen & when I tried to I was irritated—In the Rachmaninoff cello-piano piece, the piano seemed to drown out the cello. The only movement that came thru to me was the slow one—very beautiful. The young lady in charge of the desk asked for the loan of the original of this year’s Christmas card which I promised. Miss Lyon asking for data on color reproductions etc.; ; ; ; ; Friday Nov. 12 —To the Colden Country sketching—I went by the way of E. Aurora, planning to come over the hill road from the east. I went south for a considerable distance on Center St. then took a road I felt soon would lead to Colden. However it did not, but I took what I thought was a south & west zigzag route, first left & then right etc.—and just when I thought I must be coming to Jewettville I was “flabbergasted” & chagrined to see a sign “E. Aurora—35 mile speed”—I had made a complete circle!To the Davis Rd & thence thru Jewettville & to Colden