Glendale - Lenox
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 5, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Fine
 Clear & cool with light westerly
wind. Showering in early morning.
This, my sixty-fourth birth-day,
passed very pleasantly. The only notice
taken of it as such came by
the morning mail from C. [Caroline Brewster] in the 
form of a little note enclosing a ten dollar gold piece.
  I spent much of the day
in my room writing letters.
At 4 P.M. Mrs. French, Dan [Daniel Chester French] and I
motored to Stockbridge to a
meeting of the Plant Club at
Joseph Choate's. It was well attended
and the room (of no great size)
uncomfortably packed. Fuertes gave
us one excellent talk on Bird Music.
Afterwards we walked about the
beautiful grounds & flower gardens.
I met several acquaintances of two
summers ago - Miss Tuckerman, Miss
Myer, the Misses Colbert. Later still
we motored to Lenox to the big
hotel on the ridge which I had never
seen before Home about 7 P.M.

Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, July 6, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Fine
 Clear and cool with light northerly wind.
 Writing in my room most of day.
At 4 P.M. Dan [Daniel Chester French] & I started for a walk.
We went direct to Mackintosh's secluded
little summer house where we found
its unique occupant engaged in
sifting dirt as he was last year.
He had burrowed deep into the earth
around one end of the house & was
developing an odd little flower garden
there. His vegetable garden seems
even more admirable than in former
years with everything most neatly
ordered and flourishing. We sat with
him for an hour under an apple tree
listening to his diverting talk & to the
songs of nearby birds among which was
a divine-voiced Wood Thrush. He
offered us cakes & wine and walked
half way back with us as is his want.
  Barn Swallows skimming low over
Knights meadow lands & Field Sparrows
singing on a bushy hillside.
Passed evening in parlor, talking.