A warm, muggy, rainy evening

May 19. 

Our Azalea nudiflora flowers. 

It is a warm, muggy, rainy evening, when the nighthawks commonly spark and the whip-poor-will is heard.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 19, 1859

Our Azalea nudiflora flowers. See note to May 31, 1853 ( It blossomed at the old election time, and he thought it 'the handsomest flower that grows.’”)

When the nighthawks commonly spark. See May 16, 1859 (“At eve the first spark of a nighthawk.”)

May 19.  See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, May 19

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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