Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, April 10, 1915

9:00 To Bedford Glens with H & J.  On car rainy wind blowing in windows – startling ochre glow above milky blue woods –

At Glens – blue wooded hill gleaming thru perpendicular trees like a lake – Water boiling white around the choppy rocks – wind swooping in huge gyrations thru the deep hollow, jagged firs tossing wildly to the fluttering leaves; delicate hypaticas gleaming among the dead leaves, brilliant red cup-fungi; (H said the hypaticas made her him think of clouds in the sky – the white puffs of clouds) – the wildness of the Glen is appealing – fallen trees at all angles; huge boulders moss-matted; loose rich soil –

A streaking April Shower – peterbirds, songsparrow singing in the rain; nuthatches

[Note: At a later date, Burchfield erased the letter “A” which stood for his girlfriend Alice Bailey and replaced it with the letter “H” to disguise her identity.  Burchfield also erased the word “her” and replaced it with “him.”]

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, April 10, 1915