Thursday, June 26, 2014

The dark shade of June.

June 26

P. M. — I am struck, as I look toward the Dennis shore from the bathing-place, with the peculiar agreeable dark shade of June, a clear air, and bluish light on the grass and bright silvery light reflected from fresh green leaves.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 26, 1854


The peculiar agreeable dark shade of June. . . .See note to June 6, 1855 ("You see the dark eye and shade of June on the river as well as on land"); and June 11, 1856 ("I think that this peculiar darkness of the shade, or of the foliage as seen between you and the sky, is not accounted for merely by saying that we have not yet got accustomed to clothed trees, but the leaves are rapidly acquiring a darker green, are more and more opaque, and, besides, the sky is lit with the intensest light.”)

June 26. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, June 26


A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau,  The dark shade of June

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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