A Book of the Seasons: February 9.

February 9.

Though days are longer

cold sets in ever stronger.

It is midwinter.

February 9, 1851

 Peculiar softness 

and luminousness in the 

air this morning.

February 9, 1854

Such warm sunlit air

as we are wont to hear the

first bluebird's warble.

February 9, 1854

February 9, 2019

February 9, 1851 ("It is easier to get about the country than at any other season.")

February 9, 1852     ("This is our month of the crusted snow. ")

February 9, 1854     ("There is a peculiar softness and luminousness in the air this morning,")

February 9, 1854 ("February belongs to the spring; it is a snowy March.")
February 9, 1855 (" A very fine and dry snow, about a foot deep on a level. . . It snows finely all day, making about twice as much as we have had on the ground before this winter.")

February 9, 1856 ("Thermometer 30°. This and yesterday comparatively warm weather.")

February 9, 1858     ("Begins to snow at noon, and about one inch falls, whitening the ground.")

February 9, 1860     ("A hoar frost on the ground this morning — for the open fields are mostly bare — was quite a novel sight. I had noticed some vapor in the air late last evening.")

Snowing all day but

just beginning to clear up –

blue sky visible.

February 9, 2021

February 9, 2022

(avesong)

Stopping to look at

the imprint of bird wings– an

owl nabbed a squirrel.

February 9, 2022

February 9, 2022

Bright lichens in shade

hiding the barred owl unseen

in a sunlit tree.

February 9, 2022

 

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 © 2009-2016