August 1.
The berries of what I have called the alternate-leaved cornel [dogwood] are now ripe, a very dark blue - blue-black - and round, but dropping off prematurely, leaving handsome red cymes, which adorn the trees from a distance.
Chelone glabra [white turtlehead] just out.
Is not that the small-flowered hypericum?
The berries of what I have called the alternate-leaved cornel [dogwood] are now ripe, a very dark blue - blue-black - and round, but dropping off prematurely, leaving handsome red cymes, which adorn the trees from a distance.
Chelone glabra [white turtlehead] just out.
Is not that the small-flowered hypericum?
Singing birds are scarce. I have not heard the catbird
or the thrush for a long time. The pewee sings yet.
Early apples are ripe. Find a long, dense spike of the Orchis
psycodes. Much later this than the great orchis. The same, only smaller and
denser.
The small rough sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus)
tells of August heats; also Helianthus annuus, common sunflower. May it
not stand for the character of August?
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 1, 1852
The small rough sunflower tells of August heats. See note to August 1, 1855 ("Small rough sunflower a day or two").
Aug. I. P. M.— To Conantum.
Is not that the small-flowered hypericum?
The berries of what I have called the alternate-leaved cornel are now ripe, a very dark blue — blue-black — and round, but dropping off prematurely, leaving handsome red cymes, which adorn the trees from a distance.
Chelone glabra just out.
Singing birds are scarce. I have not heard the catbird or the thrush for a long time. The peawai sings yet.
Early apples are ripe, and the sopsivine scents my handkerchief before I have perceived any odor from the orchards.
The small rough sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus) tells of August heats; also Helianthus annuus, common sunflower. May it not stand for the character of August?
Found a long, dense spike of the Orchis psycodes. Much later this than the great orchis. The same, only smaller and denser, not high-colored enough.
The small rough sunflower tells of August heats. See note to August 1, 1855 ("Small rough sunflower a day or two").
Aug. I. P. M.— To Conantum.
Is not that the small-flowered hypericum?
The berries of what I have called the alternate-leaved cornel are now ripe, a very dark blue — blue-black — and round, but dropping off prematurely, leaving handsome red cymes, which adorn the trees from a distance.
Chelone glabra just out.
Singing birds are scarce. I have not heard the catbird or the thrush for a long time. The peawai sings yet.
Early apples are ripe, and the sopsivine scents my handkerchief before I have perceived any odor from the orchards.
The small rough sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus) tells of August heats; also Helianthus annuus, common sunflower. May it not stand for the character of August?
Found a long, dense spike of the Orchis psycodes. Much later this than the great orchis. The same, only smaller and denser, not high-colored enough.
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