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3_40 St. Helena, March 7, 1900 A great storm has been been brewing and broke over the country today and especially toward evening; the flooded country was a great sight. I like to be in the country when it is storming. One appreciates the rush of the wind and force of the elements and associates them with the mountains. St. Helena, March 8, 1900 Today is what painters call a gray day, what I should call a brown day. How wonderfully on such a day the colors come out! Today is a day of the rejuvenescences of the oak trees. What a spectacle |
3_41 St. Helena, Mar. 7, 1900 they are - the bare brown branches of winter are suddenly transformed. But a few days ago they had all the aspect of death, brown, lifeless twigs. Now every twig is tender with young colors. The whole tree is very very different, both in color and in an indefinable sense of softness. The greens at first are so light that the color might be termed yellow. Shades of yellow and tender green. Great round-headed oak trees, 30, 40 or 50 ft. high and often broader than high, the whole tree on account of its young color |
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