Concord, Mass.
1902.
April 3
  Brilliantly clear with light E. wind.
  I took the 2.05 P.M. train for Concord
this afternoon. On reaching Ball's Hill I found
the woods and openings as and lifeless looking
as they usually are at this season. Two
hepatica flowers were open in the bed in
front of the cabin, however. There is a
great field of snow-covered ice in the swamp
at the northern foot of Pine Ridge but no snow
remaining elsewhere in any of the woods in
this immediate neighborhood. The frost is wholly
out of the ground in the fields but there is
a good deal still remaining in the woods.
  The ice & high water combined played havoc with
the river meadows last month. Nearly all the
button bushes around Beaver Dam Lagoon were
uprooted & drifted off and patch of them
covering a space as large as the cabin were deposited
in the meadow east of Ball's Hill.
Bushes uprooted by ice
  The snows of the past winter have also
damaged the pines & cedars greatly breaking off
the tops of many of the finest of the younger trees.
Pines injured by the winter snows
  There were few birds this evening: Indeed
I heard none singing save a Robin and
a Flicker.
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