Bethel
Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] Jan. 19, 1901 [January 19, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
-10 [degrees]
+2 [degrees]
  Brilliantly clear & [and] bitterly cold
with violent N.W. [Northwest] wind. 
  At 9.30 A.M. started for Glen Woods with
the Doctor. We went only about 300 yards for
the wind chilled us to the bone and fairly
drove the breath back into our lungs. I have
never experienced such intense cold before. 
In P.M. photographed Miss Alma Gehring & [and]
Miss Mueller in their party dresses in the parlor.
Wea. [Weather] Sunday 20 [January 20, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
-16 [degrees]
+8 [degrees]
  Early morning clear; remainder of day
cloudy. No wind.
  Starting at 11 A.M. I walked up the
wood road to the Grove Hill crossroads
taking the 4x5 Premo & [and] exposing six plates.
While walking I kept warm easily but soon got
chilled if I stopped. Saw two Red Squirrels
(the dark red northern race), a Kinglet, & [and] a
Tree Sparrow & [and] heard a Creeper & [and] a flock
of Chickadees. The Tree Sparrow was in alders E. [East] of our house.
Spent P.M. making Velox prints with
the Doctor.
Bethel
Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] Jan. 21, 1901 [January 21, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
+3 [degrees]
40 [degrees]
  Cloudy & [and] warmer with a brisk
shower of fine rain in the evening.
  Spent A.M. in house, writing. In P.M.
Dr. Gehring and I began cutting out
a foot path in his woods at the
foot of the orchard. We carried it in
about 100 yards working for an hour or
more, standing on our snow shoes. The
snow was so deep & [and] powdery that wherever we
dropped our hatchet it would instantly sink
out of sight & [and] have to be groped for.
Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 22 [January 22, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
+4 [degrees]
20 [degrees]
  Brilliantly clear without a breath
of wind.
  Spent A.M. writing. In P.M. walked
on snow shoes across the fields to the E. [East]
taking the 4x5 Premo camera  & [and] exposing
six plates. Saw the fresh trail of a Skunk.
When do they hibernate if not now?
  A Blue Jay was flitting about in the orchard
this morning & [and] just before luncheon I saw
a [female] Downy Woodpecker (very first) there.
Our suet is exhausted & [and] the Chickadees no 
longer with us.