Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Feb. 5, 1917 [February 5, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Thunder & snow together. Stormy.
More snow - at least 6 inches - part of
which came last night but most this
forenoon. When it was falling thickest,
about 10.30 A.M., the hitherto weak
daylight turned suddenly to dusky twilight
within the room while everything outside
was so obscured by smoky, saffron-
tinted haze & whirling snow flakes that
I could scarce make out trees & buildings
only a few rods distant. Then in quick
succession came two lightning flashes &
thunder claps from what must have been
an exceptionally dense & low-haning [low-hanging] mass
of cloud. This soon passed & presently the
sun came out to shine for a minute or
two on a perfect smother of spotless,
fresh-fallen snow.
  Garden birds. Only a Jay flitting
through snow-embowered lilacs & a Crow
cawing somewhere further away. 
  Worked through day on Goose & Guinea-hen
story finishing it I am most glad to say.
Another acute attack of neuralgia in P.M.
It kept me from a Nuttall Club meeting
addressed by Forbush this evening.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1917 [February 6, 1917] Wea [Weather]
22 [degrees] max. [maximum] Fine
Brilliantly clear & almost windless.
Air frosty but without chill. Altogether a
glorious mid winter day of the best type.
Good sleighing again. Beautiful snow foliage
still covering very many trees - evergreen
especially.
  Garden birds. A [male] Junco & a solitary
Tree Sparrow eating millet seed close under
Museum window in company with 20+ 
House Sparrows. Heard a Crow cawing
a Jay screaming.
  The Tree Sparrow, an especially trim
& neat-looking one with clear, brick-red
cap, is new to my winter list. Where
can he have come from? Lovell Thompson
& his boy friend Walcott, who called this afternoon,
have seen no birds of that species nearer here
than Fresh Pond Swamps. They report 3
Hudsonian Tits in Waverley on Feb. 1 [February 1, 1917] & one
in Wren Orchard to-day, "Redpolls everywhere."
  Spent entire day writing letters & cheques
for bills. Miss Allyn at luncheon. We had
Victrola music after it. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] confined to her
room by a cold. I read to C. [Caroline Brewster] this evening.