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Grindstone Neck, Winter Harbor, Me.
1901
July 26
(2)

walked to the top and enjoyed the wonderful
view. East, South & West at our feet lay
the blue, clear water, studded with islands
while we looked over upon the Neck and
to the distant mountains northward. We found
Lucy, Miss Barnes & Miss Bliss on top. Miss Barnes
has kindly invited me three times to drive
and I have had a previous engagement every
time. The Scrub, Jack or Banksian Pine
(Pinus banksiana) is very abundant over the
top of Schoodic and occurs all along the
way over. There is more or less of it on
the Neck. Returning I saw a King fisher
fly Mill River. As soon as we
got home I went over to the Taylors and
thanked Miss Margaretta for a very pretty
water color that she did for me, in remem-
brance of my talk on the birds. The central
head is her sister Nanna. This evening
Lucy, M. & I went over to the Inn and saw
some slight if hard tricks.

I woke this morning at just 4 o'clock and
[A morning scene]
for fifteen minutes I sat by the open east window.
The sky was rosy red. The bay peaceful and
a single dory was moving out from the shore.
A Hermit Thrush sat on the Red Spruce close by my
windwo calling Juncos, Peabody birds & Soy Sparrows were
singing. Crows were crowing in the distance, while
on the edge of the low woods close by, at least five
Alder Flycatchers were singing most vigorously. At
4.15 the sun rose and I returned to bed —