Concord
Ther [Thermometer Friday, Sept. 27, 1918 [September 27, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliant sunshine all day from
a sky sometimes cloudless but mostly
half filled with scattered clouds
driving fast before strong west wind.
Rather cool but not too much so for
Butterflies of several kinds to be out
in considerable numbers especially
about our zinnias & asters. These &
all other flowers as yet unharmed by
frost & very glorious to behold. Never
before at this season & place have they
made a braver show, especially
throughout the old lane which is
simply ablaze with color, partly
contributed by autumn foliage already
brilliant where maples & ivy abound.
  Although out of doors all day I
noted few birds & these mostly close
about our house where the usual
Cat birds & Towhees were much in evidence.
In Birch Field I saw only a small
party of Chickadees & several Crows & Jays.
We burnt the big brush pile there
giving all day to it. It burned
very satisfactorily & not too fiercely.

Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer Saturday, Sept. 28, 1918 [September 28, 1918] Wea [Weather]
72 [degrees] max [maximum] Fine
A day of cloudless skies, strong
southerly wind and almost summer
warmth which brought out Butterflies
and Dragonflies of various kinds in
even greater numbers than yesterday.
  About noon I heard a Cicada's 
frying notes - a rather late date for
them to be noted, if I remember rightly.
Autumn coloring now widespread
and brilliant in many lowland
places especially about edges of the
river meadows.
  Not many birds & no northern
derived ones save a young [male] Sapsucker
(in Howe's orchard), 2 White thr. Sparrows [White-throated Sparrow]
& a Black poll [Blackpoll Warbler]. 4 Robins, 2 Cat birds,
2 Towhees, several Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] & a
Song Sparrow, in our door yard.
Scattered Jays & Crows.
  Gilbert Zeph & I went to Ball's Hill
this morning & spent forenoon there, 
putting bolted iron plates on cabin doors.
River meadows deeply flooded.
  In P.M. picked Wealthy apples &
strolled about Farm.