A Book of the Seasons: December 8.

December 8.

First snow two inches.

Hills and fields and icy woods

gleam with wintry sheen.

December 8, 1850

For the first time the

new moon is reflected from

the frozen snow-crust .

December 8, 1850

The retirement

and solitude that Winter

now makes possible!

December 8, 1850

First time this evening
the new moon reflected from
the frozen snow-crust.
December 8, 1850

We see from the peak
in reflection large white pines
against a white sky.
December 8, 1853

The sun reflected 

with a silvery light from the 

needles of the pine.
December 8, 1855

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 © 2009-2019