Charles E. Burchfield Journals, May 2, 1949

May 2—(Mon.)

Dream Fragment—In Salem—High Street—great open fields with gigantic trees, elms, buttonwoods and maples, with blue-jays flying about—It seemed as if someone on the excuse that the trees were a menace to surrounding houses had cut off the upper branches much to my disgust. The “scars” where even the highest branch were cut off, were as big as ordinary stumps.

Charles E. Burchfield, May 2, 1949