ZtonePhruit: A Book of the Seasons: March 20

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Snow covers the ground
and the stars twinkle as in
a cold winter night.
March 20, 1852

It is cold to-day

ground covered with snow

stars twinkle as in winter

The life and joy of
this new ribbon of water
sparkling in the sun.
March 20, 1853

Sparrows plume themselves
and with puffed-up feathers take

refuge from cold wind.
March 20, 1855
Lusty pussies throw
off their scaly coats and show
some redness at base.
March 20, 1858

First aware of the

spring sun when, out of a cloud,

it lights the willows.

*****

If you make the least correct

observation of nature this year,

you will have occasion to repeat it

with illustrations the next,

and the season and life itself is prolonged.

April 7, 1853

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”