Apr. 14, 1936 – (Tuesday)
     Out painting – first day since the Penn. R.R. trip. First to pine grove east of Marilla Rd on Carry T.H. an abortive attempt – rain drives me out. Wandering eastward, finally ending up on the cheese-factory road, where I turned east. Woods and little hollows full of snow. Pools with snow-bank rising out of it, and over a little hillside, with snow-camp. Make water-color in can; raining all afternoon.
     On way home at twilight, the scene going down into Varysburg was one of rare beauty, the broad smooth cement road reflecting the light from the sky, and intensifying it into silver, crushed red brick on both sides of noon, now river  banks, and brown fields, in the distance the blue-hazed hills.
                                                                             Apr. 15, 1936-
     P.M. to pool and snow bank again for additional notes but the conditions not the same. I spend the afternoon wandering around in a snow filled pine woods.
     On way home, the same scene going down into Varysburg again thrills me; (rain had started again), and I make a careful drawing of it, making color notations, after which I pulled the can over more to the side and ate my lunch.
     Later, at last twilight, I stopped on the high hill east of East Aurora. The wide stretching valley to the south, lost in mist- two clouds bright orange, all the rest somber and dark- a gentle rain falling.