Easter Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Mar. 31, 1918 [March 31, 1918] Wea [Weather]
60 [degrees] Perfect
  Clear, Calm, very warm.
Seldom, if ever before within my
recollection has the outgoing of
March been so altogether "lamb like".
It would be now an early spring but
for the great depth of unmelted frost
underground. This is so retarding
vegetation that it is really late instead
of early. Thus there is no green grass
as yet & not many crocuses or snowdrops
Yet the ground has been free from
snow & ice for a week or more.
  Garden birds, 4 or 5 Robins in 
full song at evening; Northern Shrike
(fully adult yet a rather dull-colored bird)
singing fitfully, in both forenoon & afternoon,
while perched only 4 or 5 ft. [feet] above ground in
very middle of dense branched Park apple tree [Parkman apple tree],
2 Flickers [male & female] both shouting at once at
edge of jungle; 2 Jays; sev. [several] Crow Blackbirds
2 Crows flying to & fro in lindens.
  Spent much of day out doors walking
slowly in Garden & along Brattle to Sparks St.
Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.] & Harry Spelman called in P.M.
C. [Caroline Brewster] went to church first at St. John's [St. John’s Memorial Chapel],
then at St. Pauls with Lizzy Fuller & Miss
Swasey. We sat in her room this evening.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, April 1, 1918 Wea [Weather]
72 [degrees] Fine
Cloudless with light westerly wind.
Unseasonably & hence rather oppressively,
warm. Many Squills & crocus blossoms
with Honey-Bees buzzing about them.
no remaining snow or ice save a little
close behind our house. Grass lawns
showing no signs of life. Many winter-
killed hemlocks & rhododendrons.