April 14.
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| April 14, 2017 |
Tuesday. Rains all day.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 14, 1857
See April 14, 1858 (“Rains still, with one or two flashes of lightning, but soon over.); April 14, 1859 ("The seventh rain storm (as I reckon), beginning with the 18th of March. "). See also April 17, 1857 ("It rains about every other day now for a fortnight past."); April 22, 1856 (“These rain-storms -- this is the third day of one -- characterize 'the season, and belong rather to winter than to summer.
Friday. We hike under a perfectly clear sky in the slanting evening light to the view. We sit and watch the sunset. The sky turns light orange. The pond and the lake silvery reflecting the trees and shoreline, so smooth.
Later through the trees on the way to the double chair I turn and see the sunset sky is bright orange. Just at dusk we hear the hermit thrush ( I for the first time) and then later in Eastland its clucking sound. I have to be reminded it is the hermit. Now under headlamp we walk out the Moosetrail and cut over up and down to the ski trail and around past the fort and home via Porcupine etc. There was a bright star at the double chair that we thought was a planet and then thought was Arcturus and I remembered at this time of year the dipper is upside down. Later we see it through the trees overhead. It is a moonless night and all the stars are bright. Orion is somewhat crooked and setting in the southwest. zphx - 20170414
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| April 14, 2017 |
Later through the trees on the way to the double chair I turn and see the sunset sky is bright orange. Just at dusk we hear the hermit thrush ( I for the first time) and then later in Eastland its clucking sound. I have to be reminded it is the hermit. Now under headlamp we walk out the Moosetrail and cut over up and down to the ski trail and around past the fort and home via Porcupine etc. There was a bright star at the double chair that we thought was a planet and then thought was Arcturus and I remembered at this time of year the dipper is upside down. Later we see it through the trees overhead. It is a moonless night and all the stars are bright. Orion is somewhat crooked and setting in the southwest. zphx - 20170414
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