After leaf-out. Another season of spring.

May 25.

May 25, 2013

Steady fisherman's rain, without wind, straight down, flooding the ground and spattering on it, beating off the apple blossoms.

Within the last week or so the grass and leaves have grown many shades darker, and if we had leaped from last Wednesday to this, we should have been startled by the change - the dark bluish green of rank grass especially. 

How rapidly the young twigs shoot - the herbs, trees, shrubs no sooner leaf out than they shoot forward surprisingly, as if they had acquired a head by being repressed so long. They do not grow nearly so rapidly at any other season. 

Many do most of their growing for the year in a week or two at this season. They shoot - they spring - and the rest of the Year they harden and mature, and perhaps have a second spring in the latter part of summer or in the fall.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 25, 1853

Within the last week or so the grass and leaves have grown many shades darker. See May 25, 1860 ("The earth wears a new and greener vest.")

Many do most of their growing for the year in a week or two at this season. They shoot See.May 15, 1859 ("Very properly these are called shoots. This plant has, perhaps, in four or five days accomplished one fourth part its whole summer's growth.")