Lancaster.
Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] June 4, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear and warmer.
  Took the dogs to the Cemetery
meadow after breakfast. Wrote 
on Cambridge List the rest of A.M.
In P.M. drove to Ponnekin [Ponakin]
Hill where we took tea sitting 
in the wagon. A Yellow wing Sparrow
singing in the grass field there.
All the northern migrants gone.
Saw about 50 Chimney Swifts enter
the chimney of the Tyler Tavern at evening.
Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 5 [June 5, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & still warmer with S. [south] wind.
  Took the usual morning walk 
with the dogs & wrote the rest
of A.M. In P.M. drove
with C. [Caroline], Miss Swazey & Char[?]
(our stable boy) to the Greenway 
road where we found a quantity 
of pink azalea in fullest bloom
growing among oaks & chestnuts
on a hill top.
  A Wood Pewee beginning her nest in
an elm tree over our house.
Lancaster - Boston
Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] June 6, 1901 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & oppressively warm with
light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  The usual walk & usual writing in A.M.
In P.M. drove with John Thayer to
Harvard to look for Hawks' nests in some
extensive white pine woods. Started a
Cooper's Hawk from her nest but did not 
attempt to send our climber up to it as
it was in the top of a very tall pine.
  Woods full of fringed polygola in full bloom.
Much Clintonia also as well as gold thread.
Visited immense colony of Eave Swallows. Counted
172 nests on one side of barn & 110 on other.
Wea. [Weather] Friday 7 [June 7, 1901] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with violent S. [South] wind
and rain at evening.
  C. [Caroline] started for Boston by 8.30 A.M.
train. I exercised the dogs &
spent forenoon writing. Took 3.15
train for Boston & called at 
Spelman's office at 5.45 to talk 
over the trouble with Arnold about 
cutting my trees at Concord. At 6.15
met C. [Caroline] at Parkers. We dined together
& I attended meeting of Botanical
Club 7.45 - 11 P.M. Spent night 
at Parker's with C. [Caroline.]