Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, July 30 1916 Wea [Weather] Fair
80 [degrees]
Cloudless yet so densely smoky or hazy 
that the sun was scarce visible in the
murky heavens and cast no shadow of
tree or other object on earth. Warm & humid
again but pleasantly cooling S.W. [southwest] breeze.
  Tanagers, Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireos], Field Sparrows and
Song Sparrows, Indigo birds [Indigo buntings], Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] & a Hermit
Thrush singing rather freely through forenoon.
During a three mile walk (11 A.M. - 1 P.M.) to &
around Hager's Pond I heard no less than 5 [male]
Tanagers & as many Field Sparrows; also 3
Song Sparrows & 2 Indigo birds. The studio
woods silent after sunset save for a few faint
notes from a Wood Pewee.
  Leaving the house at 11 A.M. in company with
Dan, Dick & Miss Longman I enjoyed the walk above
referred to most keenly. We went first around the eastern
base of the mountain ridge through dense pasture grown
hemlocks, next through mowing fields radiant with
golden Rudbeckia flowers, then around the pond on its
north side, thence homeward through young white pine
woods where we found & admired hosts of brilliant
colored mushrooms, beds of One-flowered Pyrola in
bloom, Indian pipe, innumerable Ferns of various
kinds & other attractive woodland vegetation.
As we passed Knights' barn a swarm of Swallows
were calling about it, some alighting on telegraph
wires. All of them looked like adult birds.
  Dan [Daniel Chester French] & Mrs. French, Miss Longman & Dick Dana
went on a long motor ride in afternoon. I
read & wrote. We spent evening on piazza.

Glendale
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 31, 1916  Wea [Weather] Fair
80 [degrees], 9 A.M.;  88 [degrees], 1 P.M.;  82 [degrees], 7 P.M.
Oppressively hot & humid with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
Sun shining dimly through dense smoky haze coming
from great forest fires in Canada, the newspapers tell
us to-day. It lifted just before sunset when, for
a time, the landscape was flooded with strong
saffron yellow light very like that of memorable
Yellow Day many years ago. Now, as then, the greenest
lawns looked strongly blueish & everything had
a weird appearance. Shortly after sunset the wind
changed to northerly & increased in strength as the
night wore on bringing refreshing coolness & relief.  
  Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireos], Indigo birds [indigo buntings] & Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] sang a little,
at wide intervals, through the day. A Solitary Vireo
sang well but briefly in late P.M. Our House Wren
uttered a single gushing trill. These were literally
all the bird songs I heard. No bird voice
whatever broke the stillness of woods or fields 
as evening closed in on the heat stricken land.
  Dick Dana & pretty little Louise Schoonmaker
departed at 8.15 A.M. Mr. & Mrs. Lamond & their 
friend Mr. Mallory dined with us at 7.30. We
spent evening in studio with Victrola playing.
I wrote in forenoon & after luncheon. No walk today.