Tuesday, January 19, 2016

A Book of the Seasons: January 19.

January 19.

To make the first tracks

in this road through the woods, as
snow blows and drifts still.
January 19, 1852

I never saw blue
in snow so bright as this damp,
dark, stormy morning.
January 19, 1855

More than a mile off,
reflecting the setting sun,
the pail shines brightly.
January 19, 1859



The pyramidal
tops of a white pine forest
in the horizon.


Just after sunset
far in the west horizon --
A mackerel sky.

January 15, 2014 2:57 P.M.

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

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