Summer foliage.

June 30.

It is a world of glossy leaves and grassy fields and meads. 

The foliage of deciduous trees is now so nearly as dark as evergreens that I am not struck by the contrast. The shadows under the edge of woods are less noticed now because the woods themselves are darker.

Standing on the side of Fair Haven Hill the verdure generally appears at its height, the air clear, and the water sparkling after the rain of yesterday. Seen through this clear, sparkling, breezy air, the fields, woods, and meadows are very brilliant and fair. 

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 30, 1860

The foliage of deciduous trees is now so nearly as dark as evergreens that I am not struck by the contrast. See May 18, 1852 (“[The dark green pines] are now being invested with the light, sunny, yellowish-green of the deciduous trees.");May 27, 1855 (“How important the dark evergreens now seen through the haze in the distance and contrasting with the gauze-like, as yet thin-clad deciduous trees!")