Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, Volume 16A, Saturday, July 25, 1914

This is a splendid time of the day and does not occur every day. Sun three or four hours from the horizon & very bright & sparkling. The wind easy & fresh & seems inseparable from the sunlight. Leaves of Jewell-Weed become transparently yellow-green.
[After all it is the unexpected sights which please the most & remain longest in our consciousness. All unawares I suddenly came upon a colony of cardinal flowers & gazed for a moment almost without breathing. True it was my pulse quickened. What a luminous red! The eye cannot look at them & see a clear outline. They border edge of an empty stream bed whose mud-bottom is yet slimy.]
Amble down this bed. Come to colony of plants who hold aloft long spikes of lavender star-shaped flowers.
Charles E. Burchfield, July 25, 1914