Concord
Ther. [Thermometer]  TUES. SEPT. 27, 1910 [Tuesday, September 27, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy with easterly winds and
a downpour of rain in middle of
day (12-2). Rather warm & "muggy".
  Spent day at Ball's Hill. James
and Pat worked on the canoe vault
finishing concreting the floor and about
the door frame. Harry worked at
various small jobs of carpentering.
Pierce & his four men worked until
noon when the rain drove them home.
  Mr. Dexter of Concord hailed us from the
other side of the river at 11 a.m. He had
come down to look for birds. As Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert]
was rowing him across they saw four
birds which they took to be Fish Hawks
soaring together at a great height whistling.
Later in the day I saw two or possibly the
same one twice flying low over river.
Dexter lunched with us & left at 2.30.
At 5 I paddled up river to Big Lagoon.
Saw 2 Bitterns & 2 Muskrats. [Sorenson?]
fired three shots out in Great Meadow. Harry
saw 5 Ducks flying about there. 
[margin] Tupelo foliage intensely brilliant. Red maples almost at their brightest.[/margin]
Concord - Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer]  WED. SEPT. 28, 1910 [Wednesday, September 28, 1910] Wea.[Weather]
Fine
    Raining heavily at day break. Sun out
by 9 A.M. Remainder of day brilliantly
clear & very warm with light W.[west] wind.
    To Cambridge by 8.14 train. Found
C. [Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] at the house. They went
from New York to Portland Me.[Portland, Maine] last Friday
& returned to Cambridge on Monday.
C. had an interview with Dr. G.[Gehring] in Portland.
I spent forenoon in house, Museum
and garden. Blackwell called & I went
to his house with him. He wants more
renovating done. C & E. went to Longwood
at noon to lunch with Mary G.[Mary Greenough]. I dined at
Dunster Cafe where I saw Mrs. Mansfield.
Had hair cut & took 2.08 train to
Shady Hill where I bought a number 
of fruit trees, grape vines, roses etc.
Took electric to W. Bedford [West Bedford]. Pruned pines
until nearly dusk. Heard whistling of
ducks' wings [?] on my way back.