Sweet scents in the air

June 3.

June 3, 2015

These are the clear breezy days of early June, when the leaves are young and few and the sorrel not yet in its prime.  




The roads now strewn with red maple seed. 

The foliage of deciduous trees is still rather yellow-green than green.

There are various sweet scents in the air now. 

I perceive the meadow fragrance, and, along an arborvitae hedge, a very distinct fragrance like strawberries.

H.D. Thoreau, Journal, June 3, 1860

The roads now strewn with red maple seed. See June 2, 1859 ("Red maple seed is partly blown off. Some of it is conspicuously whitish or light-colored on the trees."); June 7, 1860 ("Red maple seed is still in the midst of its fall; is blown far from the trees.")

Sweet scents in the air now. I perceive the meadow fragrance . . . See May 27, 1856 ("perceived the meadow fragrance"): May 27, 1855 ("The meadow fragrance to-day"); June 3, 1854 ("the blossoms of the huckleberries and blueberries impart a sweet scent to the whole hillside.")