A sultry day and a slight thunder-shower and now I see fireflies.

June 3

The nepeta by Deacon Brown's, a pretty blue flower. 

It has been a sultry day, and a slight thunder-shower, and now I see fireflies in the meadows at evening.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 3, 1852

The nepeta. See June 30, 1852 ("Cat-mint (Nepeta cataria) in bloom.")

A slight thunder-shower, and now I see fireflies in the meadows at evening. See June 7, 1854 ("This muggy evening I see fireflies, the first I have seen.”); June 7, 1858 (“ Fireflies pretty numerous over the river, though we have had no thunder-showers of late.”) See also A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, Fireflies

June 3. See  A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, June 3

A sultry day and 

a slight thunder-shower and 

now I see fireflies.

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, Fireflies, winged sparks of fire!

 A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

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

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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