All sorts of men come to Cattle-Show.

September 29. 

September 29, 2017

All sorts of men come to Cattle-Show. I see one with a blue hat. 

I hear that some have gathered fringed gentian. 

Pines have begun to be parti-colored with yellow leaves.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 29, 1857

Pines have begun to be parti-colored with yellow leaves.  See September 28, 1854 ("R. W. E.’s pines are parti-colored, preparing to fall, some of them.”): October 3, 1852 ("The pine fall, i.e. change, is commenced, and the trees are mottled green and yellowish.”) See also A Book of the Seasons by Henry Thoreau, The Pine Fall

Some have gathered fringed gentian.See  October 18, 1857 ("The fringed gentian closes every night and opens every morning in my pitcher.”); October 19, 1852 ("At 5 p. m. I found the fringed gentian now some what stale and touched by frost, being in the meadow toward Peter's. (Gentiana crinita in September, Bigelow and Gray.) ...  They are now, at 8 a. m., opening a little in a pitcher. It is too remarkable a flower not to be sought out and admired each year, however rare.. . .It is a very singular and agreeable surprise to come upon this conspicuous and handsome and withal blue flower at this season, when flowers have passed out of our minds and memories; the latest of all to begin to bloom.”) See also A Book of the Seasons by Henry Thoreau, The Fringed Gentian