Thursday, May 15, 2014

It is suddenly very warm

May 15

Looking off from hilltop. Trees generally are now bursting into leaf. The aspect of oak and other woods at a distance is somewhat like that of a very thick and reddish or yellowish mist about the evergreens. In other directions, the light, graceful, and more distinct yellowish-green forms of birches are seen, and, in swamps, the reddish or reddish-brown crescents of the red maple tops, now covered with keys. 

Oak leaves are as big as a mouse's ear, and the farmers are busily planting. It is suddenly very warm and looks as if there might be a thunder-shower coming up from the west.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 15, 1854


Looking off from hilltop. Trees generally are now bursting into leaf. . . .like that of a very thick and reddish or yellowish mist about the evergreens. . . . See May 15, 1860 ("Looking from the Cliffs through the haze, the deciduous trees are a mist of leaflets, against which the pines are already darkened.”)

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