Charles Burchfield, Journals, February 1, 1931

A fine brilliant cold morning – the sun shines from a vast  watery blue sky – its reflection in a black-green writhing opening in the ice covered creek –
Never before has the great star we call the sun seemed so much like a star as today –
Shining from such a depth of blue, with little mist or atmosphere to obscure it, it cannot be seen as a sphere, but only as a diamond shaped burst of dazzling light – even its color is like starlight – cold and remote –
I walk along in [ecstasy].
Charles Burchfield, February 1, 1931