Leaves cover the grass in great circles about the trees.

October 24

Rained last night and all this day for the most part, bringing down the leaves, buttonwoods and sugar maples, in the street.

October 24, 2015

The rich yellow and scarlet leaves of the sugar maple on the Common now thickly cover the grass in great circles about the trees, and, half having fallen, look like the reflection of the trees in water lighting up the Common, reflecting light even to the surrounding houses.

The gentle touch of the rain brings down more leaves than the wind.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 24, 1855

Leaves cover the grass in great circles about the trees, and, half having fallen, look like the reflection of the trees. See October 15, 1853 ("They suddenly form thick beds or carpets on the ground . . . just the size and form of the tree above.”)

Half fallen leaves

 great circles under the trees

like a reflection.

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, 

Leaves cover the grass in great circles about the trees

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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