Lake Umbagog, Maine
Pine Point
1893.
Oct. 5.
  Alternately cloudy and clear with light S.E. to W. winds.
The weather continues warm for the season the thermometer these
past three days ranging from 50 to 70.
  The autumn foliage is passing its prime and leaves are
falling fast to-day. The first rain and strong wind will strip
the birches and maples. The forests about the Lake shores and
on the mountain slopes are like brilliant variagated carpets.
The paper birches are old gold, the poplars and striped maples
pure chrome yellow, the maples yellow orange and crimson. The
dark spruces and balsams mingle most effectively with the de-
ciduous trees.
[margin]Autumn
foliage[/margin]
  Spent the day at camp writing &c. Watched one Partridge
drum this morning and notes a description of his performance on
the spot. Few small birds about. A Nuthatch storing fir seeds
in birch bark.