Plowed grounds show white

December 16. 

Begins to snow about 8 A. M., and in fifteen minutes the ground is white, but it soon stops. 

Plowed grounds show white first.

H. .D. Thoreau, Journal, December 16, 1857

In fifteen minutes the ground is white. See December 26, 1857 ("Snows all day, — first snow of any consequence, three or four inches in all.”); see also December 9, 1855 ("At 8.30 a fine snow begins to fall, increasing very gradually, perfectly straight down, till in fifteen minutes the ground is white . . .”)

Plowed grounds show white first. See October 19, 1854 (“The country above Littleton (plowed ground) more or less sugared with snow,”); November 8, 1853 ("The snow begins to whiten the plowed ground now."); November 24, 1858 (“Plowed ground is quite white”); November 24, 1860 (“The plowed fields were for a short time whitened”)

December 16.  See A Book of the Seasons, By Henry Thoreau, December 16 

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