June 5 1975
Went up the tree tonight with Stan. Still no human habitation in sight. The tree put on lots of new growth this year. Tips no longer yellow-green but whitish-olive, still tender though. ¦The farm, my mistress, my passionate affair, returned after two years. Tempestuous love-hate. It beguiles and tortures and surprises and overwhelms me. I would fight for it as for wife and child.