Sunny lees and sheltered nooks

October 26

It is cool today and windier. The water is rippled considerably. 

At this season we seek warm sunny lees and hillsides, as that under the pitch pines by Walden shore, where we cuddle and warm ourselves in the sun as by a fire, where we may get some of its reflected as well as direct heat. 

  The blue-stemmed and white goldenrod apparently survive till winter, – push up and blossom anew. 

And a few oak leaves in sheltered nooks do not wither.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 26, 1852

The blue-stemmed and white goldenrod apparently survive till winter. See August 12, 1852 ("Solidago bicolor, white goldenrod, apparently in good season");  September 23, 1852 ("A blue-stemmed goldenrod, its stem and leaves red."); October 11, 1856 ("The white goldenrod is still common here, and covered with bees."); October 20, 1852 ("Tansy, white goldenrod, blue-stemmed goldenrod. Aster undulatus, autumnal dandelion, tall buttercup, yarrow, mayweed."); November 2, 1852 ("Plucked quite a handsome nosegay from the side of Heywood's Peak, - white and blue-stemmed goldenrods, asters ");  November 10, 1858 ("In the path below the Cliff, I see some blue-stemmed goldenrod turned yellow as well as purple.")

October 26. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, October 26 and A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The seasons and all their changes are in me.

At this season we

seek to warm ourselves in the

sun as by a fire.

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau,  Sunny lees and sheltered nooks

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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