A Book of the Seasons: October 23

October 23

October 23, 2016

The flowers bloom and
the birds warble their spring notes
like a second spring.
October 23, 1853

Flowers blossoming,

hylodes peeping, birds singing

like a second spring.

October 23, 1853

Low in the wood-path
the Viola pedata
makes an impression.
October 23, 1853

Like a second spring

the flowers bloom and.the birds 

warble their spring notes.
October 23, 1853

What a peculiar 
red has the white! And some black
have now a rich brown.
October 23, 1853

Struck with clear yellow

finely serrate black birch leaves
on sprouts in the woods.
October 23, 1855

The evergreen plants
on the forest floor have a
rare preeminence.
October 23, 1857

The evergreen plants

on the forest floor have a

rare preeminence.

October 23, 1857

The evergreen ferns 

are seen to be evergreen – 

stand out all at once. 

October 23, 1857

In an instant a 

thousand seeds of the bidens 

fasten to my clothes, 

and I carry them 

for miles, planting one here 

and another there. 

October 23, 1853

October23, 2020

October 23, 2016

October has been the month of autumnal tints.  October 23, 1852 

 By the end of the month the leaves will either have fallen or besered and turned brown by the frosts for the most part.  October 23, 1852

I can find no bright leaves now in the woods. October 23, 1857

October 23, 2020

October 23, 2022

October 23, 2016

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 © 2009-2015