Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, April 16, 1918 Wea [Weather]
68 [degrees] max
Clear with light easterly wind
shifting to westerly before sunset.
  Garden birds. 2 Robins, 15 Grackles
flying W. [west] at sunset., 2 Starlings
in Parkman apple tree.
  Started for a walk at 10 A.M.
Strolled up Highland St. & down
Fayweather St. towards Fresh Pond
trying to trace among the crowded
houses where various former natural
features of the landscape had been
in the days of my youth. This
was mostly futile for everything
was utterly changed. Got very
weary & took trolly car back to 
head of Sparks St.
Starting at 3 P.M. in our 
Ford car with Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert], C. [Caroline Brewster] & I 
motored to Arlington & thence
around the Mystic Ponds, a 
very attractive ride of an hours
& a quarter duration.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, April 17, 1918 Wea [Weather]
70 [degrees] max
Clear & warm with light westerly
breezes. Vegetation advancing fast
& now ahead of it s average at this season
if not unprecedently forward as respects
certain things. Thus several horse chestnuts
in Nichols & Choate places had quite
opened broad leaves by mid afternoon
& a few  Forsythia blossoms had
unfolded in a hedge near Elmwood.
The grass is everywhere green now.
  Garden birds. 4 Robins, 8 Grackles
several House Sparrows.
  Spent most of forenoon in Museum.
Galloupe came out & together we
went over a lot of Judge Abbotts
vouchers relating to expenditures he
has made for Wolfeboro school
playgrounds etc. He has called for
another app. of $1000. which I told
Galloupe to make subject to Butterick's
approval.
  L. & I motored to Mt. Auburn [Mt. Auburn Cemetery] at 
3 P.M. to put some early flowers on
Henry's grave. Heard a Pheasant
crow there.