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changed to red - & then on east the clouds along the horizon turned a blue gray ^[[insertion]] their spaces [[/insertion]] afterwards filled by a pink light.
[[underlined]] August. [[/underlined]] In late August there were some wonderful sunsets. One night the sky behind the mts. was [[underlined]] aflame [[/underlined]] - the dark mts. stood against it. Other night golden.
   On August nights when we were on the lake we watched [[strikethrough]] the su [[/strikethrough]] Venus go down behind the mts. One night I thought it was a signal fire from a peak.
   Clear starlight nights the Dipper pointed the north star up the lake. Scorpio's whole long & length was in the s.e. sky, the square of Pegasus on the camp woods, Vega overhead.

[[underline]] Sept. 1 [[/underline]] - After dull gray days it ^[[insertion]] has [[/insertion]] cleared. The sky is blue & the sun shines warm. How good it is! Coming across the lake at noon the lake was full of big white cumulus clouds that encompassed the boat - it was like the days on the ^[[insertion]] plain of [[/insertion]] Texas when the clouds went with us.