In the Sierra 



mer work done ; and the summer crop of 

 birds and deer will soon be able to follow 

 their parents to the foothills and plains at 

 the approach of winter, when the snow be- 

 gins to fly. 



September 5. No clouds. Weather cool, 

 calm, bright as if no great thing was yet ready 

 to be done. Have been sketching the North 

 Tuolumne Church. The sunset gloriously 

 colored. 



September 6. Still another perfectly 

 cloudless day, purple evening and morning, 

 all the middle hours one mass of pure serene 

 sunshine. Soon after sunrise the air grew 

 warm, and there was no wind. One naturally 

 halted to see what Nature intended to do. 

 There is a suggestion of real Indian summer 

 in the hushed, brooding, faintly hazy weather. 

 The yellow atmosphere, though thin, is still 

 plainly of the same general character as that 

 of eastern Indian summer. The peculiar mel- 

 lowness is perhaps in part caused by myriads 

 of ripe spores adrift in the sky. 



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