Black birches and red maples changed about the pond.

October 1.

The young black birches about Walden, next the south shore, are now commonly clear pale yellow, very distinct at distance, like bright-yellow white birches, so slender amid the dense growth of oaks and evergreens on the steep shores. 

  

The black birches and red maples are the conspicuous trees changed about the pond. Not yet the oaks.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 1, 1854

The young black birches about Walden, next the south shore, are now commonly clear pale yellow, very distinct at distance. See October 3, 1858 ("About the pond I see maples of all their tints, and black birches (on the southwest side) clear pale yellow")

The black birches and red maples are the conspicuous trees changed about the pond. See October 1, 1852 ("The young and tender trees begin to assume the autumnal tints more generally,"); October 3, 1856 ("Especially the hillsides about Walden begin to wear these autumnal tints in the cooler air. These lit leaves, this glowing, bright-tinted shrubbery, is in singular harmony with the dry, stony shore of this cool and deep well.")

The young black birches

next the Walden south shore are 

now clear pale yellow

distinct at distance

like bright-yellow white birches 

so slender amid 

dense growth of oaks and 

evergreens on the steep shores.

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Black birches and red maples 

changed about the pond.

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2024

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