219
1897
Sept. 1
Lake Umbagog.
  Clear and cool.
[margin]Boston 
to
Bethel
to 
Lakeside.[/margin]
  Started for the Lake this morning, leaving Boston at
8.30 and stopping at Bethel where I spent the night
with the Gehrings. I am still on crutches and am
unable to walk at all without them.
  The woods and fields all the way from Boston were
remarkably fresh & green for the season - the result
no doubt, of the frequent copious rains of June & July.
Since August came in the weather has been clear & cool
most of the time but there was a heavy rain on the
24th. There has been no hot weather since August 16th.
and some of the nights have been almost frosty.
[margin]Vegetation[/margin]
" [Sept.] 2
  Early morning dull with light showers, the clouds
beginning to break away by 10 A.M. Afternoon cloudless
with fine cool, dry W. wind.
  Went through to the Lake by stage to - day starting
at noon and reaching Lakeside at 5.30 P.M. Although
the drive gave me some pain I have rarely if ever
enjoyed it more. The afternoon was simply perfect
and the mountains unusually clear & distinct. The
roadsides were abloom with golden - rod, asters, Eupatorium
& other autumn flowers all of which seemed to me to
be unusually deep & rich in coloring owing, no doubt,
to the abundant summer rains. Impatiens was
especially abundant & conspicuous. I saw a few plants
of Actea alba with full heads of the white berries.
Birds were apparently not numerous & I noticed
nothing of peculiar interest.
[margin]Roadside 
flowers.[/margin]
[margin]Birds[/margin]