Beautiful snow scene.
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1876.
Wenesday [Wednesday]
April 5 [April 5, 1876] Yesterday it stormed hard all day, commencing
with rain & ending up with snow which con-
tinued falling through the night, [delete]abou[/delete] until at
daybreak this morning the ground was covered
to the depth of a foot on the level & badly drifted
in places, altogether by far the heaviest storm
that we have had this year. Started off
immediately after breakfast walking up
to the Coolidge farm. Striking into the
pine woods along the Mt. Auburn fence
I found the trees fairly laden down with 
the moist snow which had clung to
every twig. The apple orchard adjoining
was as thick and shaded as when in full
summer foliage, but the most beautiful
sight of all awaited me at the cedar ridge
behind French's. Here the trees bent in
many cases nearly to the ground by the
weight of the snow, formed arches and
canopied bowers beautiful beyond description.
The cart path through this grove was fairly
roofed over by cedars and yellow pines the
tips of some trees thirty feet high fairly
toutching [touching] the ground. Walking beneath
these the beauty of this pure immaculate
feathery foliage was most exquisite, and
a little later when the snow had begun to
drop off in places the bright green of
the yellow pine needles shone out in
[delete]beautiful[/delete] fine contrast to heavy masses of
spotless snow. While my eye was taking
in all these delights my ears were not
less pleased, for the cedars were fairly 
alive with fox sparrows and I believe
that never before in my whole field