Glendale - Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] TUES. AUG.12, 1913 [Tuesday, August 12, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & very cool with light N. [north] wind.
Red-eye [Red-eyed vireo] sang a few notes at 8 A.M.
Soon after breakfast Albert Fletcher &
I said good-bye to the Frenches &
started for Pittsfield with Simpson
driving the motor car. It was like
a crisp September morning & the ride
was very delightful. Reaching our
destination we took the 10.35 train.
Will French alighted from it having
come, with his younger boy, from Chicago -
I had not seen him for 30 years or more.
Fletcher & I talked all the way to Boston.
Saw lots of purple loosestrife in bloom
between Framingham & Wellesley.
  We dined together at Athletics Club.
Reached home at 5 to find C. [Caroline] working
& singing in the Garden. It is [?]
with flowers. Saw a Water Thrush & 
Oriole there & heard a Blue Jay.
 Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] WED. AUG.13, 1913 [Wednesday, August 13, 1913] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon sunny & cool. Heavy
thunder shower at 3 P.M.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters & cheques for bills.
Had breakfast dinner & supper
on back piazza with C.[Caroline]. She
worked in the Garden after breakfast.
It has never before seemed to me
quite so beautiful as now.
  In it or in the Jungle I noted
to-day 2 Robins, a Redstart, a
Water Thrush, 2 Oven birds, a
Goldfinch, a Flicker, 2 Jays, an
Oriole & a Kingbird while a
Sparrow hawk was seen & a Swift
heard, over it. Last night I heard
a Screech Owl in the lindens.
  C. [Caroline] read the Transcript to me this
evening & we had a good long talk.