Saw the first bee of the season on the railroad causeway, also a small red butterfly and, later, a large dark one with buff-edged wings.
There is an early willow on sand-bank of the railroad, against the pond, by the fence, grayish below and yellowish above. The railroad men have dug around the sleepers that the sun may thaw the ground and let them down. It is not yet out. Cut across near Baker’s barn. The swollen buds of some trees now give a new tint to their tops seen at a distance, - to the maples at least. Baker’s peach orchard looks at this distance purplish below and red above, the color of the last year’s twigs. The geranium (?) is the most common green leaf to be seen everywhere on the surface now the snow is gone.
