Concord, Mass.
1909, 
March 21 
  Brilliantly clear with gusts of cold N.W. wind alternating
with prolonged periods of dead calm. A crisp bracing morning 
with ground hard frozen. Warm with muddy roads later in day. 
  Leaving the house with "Larry" at 8 A.M. I crossed
Mr. Harris' pasture to Holden's Hill and walked thence
along the river paths to the cabin where I spent nearly 
half an hour. Thence I went to Davis Hill and across 
the swamp into Prescott's pine woods where I wandered 
about for some time. As I was passing through Birch 
Field and on my way home, about eleven o'clock, I met 
Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Emerson. They had come down for
a walk in the woods with me so I turned back & 
we strolled about Birch Field and the woods to the 
south of it until half past twelve when they left
me (at the house) to drive back to Concord. Thus 
I was out of doors the whole forenoon seeing
nothing of especial interest save a drake Golden-eye.