Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, April 30, 1917 Wea [Weather]
D.C. French [Daniel Chester French] visits me Dull
Another "gray day" very chilly with
keen N.E. [northeast] wind.
  Hylas peeping numerously at evening.
Wood Frogs silent of late. No Garden Toads
heard here yet.
  Larches veiled in tender green. Gooseberries
dense with young foliage. No fruit trees
have bloomed yet. Apple trees show no
signs of it. Vegetation generally much 
belated.
  First noted. Ruby-crown. Kinglet [Ruby-crowned Kinglet] [male in full song] tops tall
oaks. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery; Brown Thrasher [male in full song]
near Cemetery, [male in full song] Ritchie place.
  Mrs. Melvin came for me by appointment at
9 A.M. We motored first to Sleepy Hollow 
to plan for planting hemlocks & laurel, thence
to Shady Hill nursery where we ordered a
supply of the evergreens at very high prices.
Home by noon, Dan French joined me at Farm
5 P.M. We strolled about in woods & fields
until nearly 7 P.M. Started 3 Partridges &
heard Dove cooing delightfully in Prescott pines.
Spent long evening in parlor talking ceaselessly,
mostly about war.
Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, May 1, 1917 Wea [Weather]
40 [degrees] max. Stormy
Raining, sleeting, even snowing by turns
beneath a darkly lowering sky, with
an icy N.E. [northeast] wind searching out every
remotest corner of field & wood so that
there was literally no comfort anywhere
out of doors. These conditions temporarily
banished practically all the birds. Scarce
one could I see or hear in orchard
or woodland. A House Wren in early morn
& a Robin at eve were the only ones 
heard singing.Taken altogether it
was a truly remarkable "May day".
  Dan [Daniel Chester French] & I took a short walk after
breakfast. He left me at 10.45 to
go back to New York. Brown & man
came down to set out trees & worked
at it all the forenoon. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] was
called to Cambridge because of his daughter
Mary's serious & sudden illness. He
departed just after luncheon. I wrote 
letters & took a solitary walk with 
"Timmy" in late P.M. The Burbanks
came over to sup & spend the night.
It is raining heavily now (10 P.M)