Monday, May 27, 2013

Leafy June

May 27.

Cleared up last night after two and a half days' rain. This, with the two days' rain the 18th and 19th, makes our May rain -- and more rain either of the two than at any other time this spring. Coming out into the sun after this rain, with my thick clothes, I find it unexpectedly and oppressively warm. Yet the heat seems tempered by a certain moisture still lingering in the air. 

A new season has commenced - summer - leafy June. The elms begin to droop and are heavy with shade. The buttercups in the church-yard and on some hillsides are now looking more glossy and bright than ever after the rain. The vireo, too, is heard more than ever on the elms; his note begins to prevail.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 27, 1853


A new season has commenced - summer - leafy June. . . . See June 6, 1857 ("This is June, the month of grass and leaves.”) and note to May 27, 1855 (“The fields now begin to wear the aspect of June, their grass just beginning to wave.”)

The buttercups in the church-yard and on some hillsides are now looking more glossy and bright than ever after the rain. See May 30, 1857 ("Buttercups thickly spot the churchyard.");  June 2, 1852 (“Buttercups now spot the churchyard.”)

The vireo, too, is heard more than ever . . .See note to May 27, 1854 ("The red-eye is an indefatigable singer.”)

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