Early summer

June 2.

Buttercups now spot the churchyard. 

Golden alexanders - looks like a parsnip - near or beyond the East Quarter schoolhouse. 

The elms now hold a good deal of shade and look rich and heavy with foliage. You see darkness in them. 

Hazy days now. Milkweed, butter-and-eggs, etc., etc. are getting up. Low blackberry in bloom. The dried brown petals of apple blossoms spot the sod in pastures. Female sassafras in bloom.



Nest of Wilson's thrush with bluish-green eggs. 

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 2, 1852

Buttercups now spot the churchyard.  See May 30, 1857 ("Buttercups thickly spot the churchyard. “); May 27, 1853 ("The buttercups in the church-yard and on some hillsides are now looking more glossy and bright than ever after the rain.”)

Low blackberry in bloom. See note to June 1, 1860 (“Many low blackberry flowers at Lee's Cliff.”)

June 2. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, June 2

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2021