Glendale
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. [Saturday] AUG. 26, 1911 [August 26, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Fair
Partly cloudy & densely hazy, the sun
shining only fitfully & feebly.
Dan [Daniel Chester French] had a good night & little or no acute
pain today but his leg was so stiff &
sore that he could scarcely hobble about &
did not get away from house at all.
As we were sitting together on its front 
steps after luncheon we saw on trees &
shrubbery on lawn a considerable number &
variety of birds among them an ad [adult] [male] Bal. 
Oriole [Baltimore Oriole], a White bel. Nuthatch [White-breasted Nuthatch], a Blk.-throated
Green Warbler [Black-Throated Green Warbler] several Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] & about 30
Cedar Birds. The last-named were busily
engaged catching flying insects evidently large
Diptera which I could plainly see dancing in 
a large swarm near the top of the tall ash from
which the Cedar Birds were sallying out a
dozen or more at a time. They kept this 
up ceaselessly most of the afternoon &
I saw them at it in the forenoon
in a tree far off across the road.
Helped the men pick pears in late P.M.
After I had gone to bed & near midnight
I heard a Veery & Warblers near [?].

Glendale
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. [Sunday] AUG. 27, 1911 [August 27, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Heavy rain before daybreak but
none afterwards although thundering
clouds hung low about the mountains.
The air was calm warm & very humid
Spent forenoon in doors talking with
Dan [Daniel Chester French] & writing a long letter to C. [Caroline Brewster]
Mr. & Mrs.  a young, married
couple, friends of Margaret's, dined with
us. At 4 P.M. the automobile was
ordered & Mrs. French, Margaret &
I went over to Stockbridge to see
Miss Tuckerman & her recently acquired
place which includes much of the
golf links & is very picturesque reminding
me of places along the Thames.
There were a dozen or more people
there mostly ladies. Heard a Nuthatch
here & another at the Frenches.