Bethel
Wea. [Weather] MON. [Monday] March 4, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
22 [degrees] 
48 [degrees]
  Sunny through middle of day but cloudy
at morning & evening. Strong S. [South] wind.
The snow wasted rapidly & there were pools
of water in the woods.
  Spent A.M. in house writing. In
P.M. walked to village. No birds today.
They do not seem to come about the
house during mild weather now as they
did early in the winter nor can I
find nearly so many in the woods.
Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 5 [March 5, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
30 [degrees] 
44 [degrees] 
20 [degrees] 
  Six in. [inches] of damp snow fell last
night loading the trees. Then sun came
out bright & warm at 9 A.M. & soon
relieved them. The P.M. was cloudy with
snow squalls. Sunset clear with cold n. wind 
  Out with 5x7 camera at 9 A.M. Struck
across the fields to mill bridge but got 
no further for all the snow fell from
the trees in a few minutes. Exposed 4
plates & got back by 10.30. Blue Jays
screaming but no other birds noted.
C. [Caroline] arrived by 4.30 P.M. train. We walked
up from station.
Bethel.
Wea. [Weather] WED. [Wednesday] March 6, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
+5 [degrees]
17 [degrees]
  Cloudy with brief periods of 
sunshine. Wind N.W. [Northwest], rather strong.
  C. [Caroline] & I walked up the wood road a short
distance just after breakfast. In the P.M.
we took the same convenient pathway,
following it as far as the crossroads.
Not a bird of any kind was seen or heard
on either occasion. There were very few
fresh tracks even of rabbits. The wood cutters
are still at work on balsam Knoll which
they have nearly stripped.
Wrote for 2 hours in A.M.
Wea. [Weather] THURSDAY 7 [March 7, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
-22 [degrees] (R.R. station) 
-12 [degrees] (our house) 
+22 [degrees]
  Clear, the distance slightly hazy.
Dead calm up to 10 A.M. After
that a moderate S.W. [Southwest] to W. [West] wind.
  C. [Caroline] and I started for Grover Hill at 9 A.M.
taking the 5x7 camera. Crossed the fields to the
Mill on snow shoes. Exposed most of my 10 plates
along the road beyond. C. [Caroline] climbed to the top of
Sunset Knoll. A Chickadee singing & a Canada
nuthatch calling there. We came back through
the pine woods to the Corner road by the mill pond.
Although the ther. [thermometer] stood at +10 [degrees] when we started
I wore no gloves & did not cover my ears.
Wrote and developed my negatives in P.M.