P.M.—To Hill in rain.

  To us snow and cold seem a mere delaying of the spring. How far we are from understanding the value of these things in the economy of Nature!

  The earth is still mostly covered with ice and snow. As usual, I notice large pools of greenish water in the fields, on an icy bottom, which cannot owe their greenness to the reflected blue mingled with the yellowish light at sundown . . .