A Book of the Seasons: April 22.

April 22.

April 22,, 2022

The wind last Wednesday, April 16th, blew down a hundred pines on Fair Haven Hill. April 22, 1851

It still rains. The water is over the road at Flint's Bridge, so that there is now only the Boston road open. This flood tempts men to build boats. . . . This makes five stormy days. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday . . . The water at 6 P. M. is one and a half inches higher than in the morning , i.e. seven inches above the iron truss.April 22, 1852

It has rained two days and nights, and now the sun breaks out, but the wind is still easterly, and the storm probably is not over . . . These rain-storms -- this is the third day of one -- characterize 'the season, and belong rather to winter than to summer. April 22, 1856

The river higher than before and rising. C. and I sail rapidly before a strong northerly wind . . . We have to roll our boat over the road at the stone bridge.April 22, 1857

 
This afternoon there is an east wind, and a rain-storm accordingly beginning, the eighth of the kind with this wind. April 22, 1859

It was high water again about a week ago, Mann thinks within three or four inches as high as at end of winter. April 22, 1861

The pine on Lee’s shore
seen against the light water,
this cloudy weather.
April 22, 1852

A pair soaring high

for pleasure ever further

and further away.

April 22, 1860

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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