Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 15, 1947

A mild beautiful day yesterday, with clear watery blue sky, a few white clouds and warm sunshine. Toward sunset mists gathered, and in the evening a heavy downpour of rain, with one flash of lightning, followed by deep booming thunder what deep elemental mysteries of the earth it invoked.

This evening the creek was full of a raging torrent of dull ochre water, with a fringe of great blocks of ice on the banks above the water, showing the flood event when the ice broke up in the night. There is a chill in the air, the sky above the wet brown earth thick with shapeless heavy masses of cloud.

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 15, 1947