1907 
April 9 
north- * 
east 
snow-storm 
-7 
CONCORD. 
The north-easter which began yesterday morning 
increased in violence through last night and to-day. It 
rained hard all this forenoon and snowed all the after¬ 
noon. Now, at nightfall, the snow lies six inches deep 
on the level,in open places,and loads the branches of 
the trees almost to breaking,in the woods. I had not 
thought to see so wintry a landscape again this spring 
as met my eye wherever I went late this afternoon. The 
beauty of the snow-burdened pines, hemlocks and birches 
equalled anything that I have ever seen before, even at 
Bethel. This, however, was only in sheltered places; 
elsewhere the raging north-east wind tore the snow from 
even the pines before it could collect there in any 
quantity. The birches along the river-bank were bent over 
the water in arches of surpassing grace and the delicate 
tracery of their snow-laden twigs was truly exquisite. 
The river appeared to be open only over its channel, 
for on the flooded meadows the water was everywhere 
covered with a dingy white slush which looked very like 
snow ice. In the more sheltered woods so much of the 
snow lodged in the tops and on the branches of the trees 
that the ground v/as nowhere very deeply covered and 
under the pines and hemlocks it was nearly or q'q'ite bare. 
This gave the birds a chance to get at the earth without 
much trouble and wherever it offered Fox Sparrows, Juncos 
and Robins were availing themselves of it. 
