Saturday, January 28, 2012

At Brister's Spring


January 28.

These warmer days the woodchopper finds that the wood cuts easier than when it had the frost in its sap-wood, though it does not split so readily. Thus every change in the weather has its influence on him, and is appreciated by him in a peculiar way.


About Brister's Spring the ferns, which have been covered with snow, and the grass are still quite green. 

The skunk-cabbage in the water is already pushed up, and I find the pinkish head of flowers within its spathe bigger than a pea.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 28, 1852

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