Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
Page 128
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2 CRAWFORD HOUSE CRAWFORD NOTCH WHITE MTS. NEW HAMPSHIRE September 21 of 1920 (continued). At 4.30 climbed Mt Willard in 45 minutes to see the last of the day. Stayed on top until 5.50 and then walked down the mountain in 22 minutes. It is a wonderful sight from this elevation to see the night coming on and the fine change of colors as the sun sets over climb higher into the skies leaving the earth in darkened flow of gold. The shadows between the mountains, are a dark green-blue while above all the peaks there is a dark zone having a straight horizontal line. Above the latter come the tints of the rain-bows gradually shading off into the blue of the sky. A few fleecy clouds are over head and these change from a brilliant silvery color to pink. High in the sky and almost over the center of the notch stands the half moon with its brilliant silvery face looking down upon the descending sun! Farther to the east is the evening star. When I got to the hotel it was not yet dark and facing the mountains and fair Luna I