Yesterday’s snow, drifting

February 18

Yesterday’s snow drifting. No cars from above or below till 1 P.M.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, February 18, 1856

Yesterday’s snow drifting. See February 17, 1856 ("Some three or four inches of snow fallen in the night and now blowing. At noon begins to snow again, as well as blow. Several more inches fall."); March 9, 1856 ("The train which should have got down last night did not arrive till this afternoon (Sunday), having stuck in a drift."); See also  December 29, 1853 ("All day a driving snow-storm, imprisoning most, stopping the cars, blocking up the roads.");  January 19, 1857 ("It is exceedingly drifted, so that the first train gets down about noon and none gets up till about 6 p. m.!"); March 22, 1861("To-day the drifts are high over the fences and the trains stopped.The Boston train due at 8.30 A..M. does not reach here till five this afternoon.")

No cars from above 

or below till 1 P.M –

yesterday’s drifting. 

 A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Yesterday’s snow, drifting

 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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