7 A M To Hubbard s Grove .
The rain is over, the ground swept and washed. There is a high and cold west wind. Birds fly with difficulty against it. The brooks and the river are unexpectedly swelled with yesterday’s rain. The river is a very dark blue. The wind roars in the wood. A maple is blown down.
PM -- Sail down river to the pitch pine hill behind Abner Buttrick's, with a strong northwest wind, and cold.
The white maples are completely bare. The tall dry grass along the shore rustles in the cold wind. The shores are very naked now.
I am surprised to see how much the river has risen.
The swamp white oaks in front of N. Barrett's — their leafy tops — look quite silvery at a distance in the sun, very different from near to.
The ground is strewn with pine-needles as sunlight.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 25, 1853
The tall dry grass along the shore rustles in the cold wind. See October 25, 1854 ("[T]he withered reeds on the brink reflected in the water."); October 25, 1855 ("The dead wool-grass, etc., characterizes the shore.”)
The ground is strewn with pine-needles as sunlight. See October 25, 1858 (“The silvery sheen of pine—needles; i. e., when its old leaves have fallen and trees generally are mostly bare, in the cool Novemberish air and light we observe and enjoy the trembling shimmer and gleam of the pine-needles.”) See also October 22, 1851 ("[T]he ground in the pine woods is strewn with the newly fallen needles. "); October 26, 1855 ("The hillside is slippery with new-fallen white pine leaves. “) and
The white maples are completely bare. The tall dry grass along the shore rustles in the cold wind. The shores are very naked now.
I am surprised to see how much the river has risen.
The swamp white oaks in front of N. Barrett's — their leafy tops — look quite silvery at a distance in the sun, very different from near to.
The ground is strewn with pine-needles as sunlight.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 25, 1853
The tall dry grass along the shore rustles in the cold wind. See October 25, 1854 ("[T]he withered reeds on the brink reflected in the water."); October 25, 1855 ("The dead wool-grass, etc., characterizes the shore.”)
The ground is strewn with pine-needles as sunlight. See October 25, 1858 (“The silvery sheen of pine—needles; i. e., when its old leaves have fallen and trees generally are mostly bare, in the cool Novemberish air and light we observe and enjoy the trembling shimmer and gleam of the pine-needles.”) See also October 22, 1851 ("[T]he ground in the pine woods is strewn with the newly fallen needles. "); October 26, 1855 ("The hillside is slippery with new-fallen white pine leaves. “) and
A Book of the Seasons ;, by Henry Thoreau, The Pine Fall
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