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afternoon. Today has been wintery again, cold and sharp, clouds have been moving out off the north all day. I started a sixteen x twenty canvas of some apples trees this morning it was so windy that I could not work with any comfort very long. So I went indoor and worked from memory, tho not altogether finished the result that I have rather pleases me. I got some of the character of the trees. The canvas I was working on when you were here, the one with the many trees, the trouble is it has to many of them. I will make another attempt at it, there is a chance to make something fine with the trees.  how! I have not yet discovered as yet, every time I pass them I am attracted