May 29 (Thurs.) –
Letter from Joe. He + Ruth are spending the weekend at Cayuga Lake + intend stopping off on the return. (Monday).
B-M + I to Loblaws marketing – warm + sunny when we went in, but a very short + violent storm came up while we were inside. Blew down branches some of which damaged cars parked there.
Raining most of morning – Played Beethoven’s Quartet #15 (132) – The third movement is almost m[unintelligible] in its atmosphere of religious feeling. A monologue addressed to God! [unintelligible, but possibly, “Evoking all energy he can, which art wants to bury”]
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, May 29, 1947