In the path near Goose Pond

January 2.

In the path near Goose Pond I see where the rabbits have eaten the bark of smooth sumachs and young locusts rising above the snow; also barberry. 

Yesterday we saw the pink light on the snow within a rod of us. The shadow of the bridges, etc., on the snow was a dark indigo blue. 

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 2, 1855

See January 2, 1856 (“There are the tracks of many rabbits, both gray and white, which have run about the edges of these swamps since this snow came, amid the alders and shrub oaks, and one white one has crossed it. ”)

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau,  January 2.

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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out-of-doors, in its own locality."

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