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studies out at Deans. I took a walk in the afternoon.  It was a beautiful afternoon, too fine to stay in doors. Out back of the steep rocks in their very top I found the hare bell in full bloom, and in the fields I noticed the daisies. There are very few birds now. I saw a flock of black birds, a little bird that looked like a snow bird and one or two sparrows in the brambles along the stone walls.  People are pushing their houses out in all directions and the quiet places are becoming few. An Irishmans house here, a quarry there, in all the nice places that I used to haunt about alone a few years ago. I have often thought I would like to live where I could step out of my house into unfrequented fields and woods. I dont care so much where I walk so I do not meet people.  

Friday Oct. 31. 1873 The country is growing brown and bare, and the cloudy skies and the lights along the horizon predominate. I paint every day and in the afternoon take a walk. Today I went over towards Jacob Valley. It has been cloudy but still and not very cold. I painted in my little picture of the Entrance to the Highlands which I improved very much.  I have finished the picture of the brook from one of this fall's studies, so that I have three completed small paintings about 12 x 20. I received a letter from Fitch today wanting something for the Century on Saturday. I answered his letter immediately and told him to take anything he pleased from my studio.

Saturday Nov. 1" Joe Trubby called today to see my studies and to show me two sketches he had made from nature. I painted upon a picture 12 x 14 which I compared from a part of my Hudson River picture.  

Sunday Nov. 2., The nineteenth anniversary of our wedding Gertrude gave me a little silver sugar bowl in remembrance of it. I wrote a long letter to Eastman Johnson and in the afternoon took a walk. It was a bright beautiful day and I went down to Steep Rocks, up to the River tina which I found a great lake completely covering the road, and came home across the fields. Afterwards

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