A Wintry Prospect

October 1.

Remarkable frost and ice this morning; quite a wintry prospect. The leaves of trees stiff and white at 7 A.M.

I hear it was 21° this morning early. I do not remember such cold at this season.

This is about the full of the moon (it fulled at 9 P.M the 29th) in clear, bright moonlight nights. We have fine and bright but cold days after it.

One man tells me that he regretted that he had not taken his mittens with him when he went to his morning's work, - mowing in a meadow, - and when he went to a spring at 11 A. M., found the dipper with two inches of ice in it frozen solid.

Water was prepared for ice, and C. saw the first Vanessa Antiopa since spring.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 1, 1860 

Remarkable frost and ice this morning. See October 1, 1852 ("A severer frost last night.")

Water was prepared for ice . See November 11, 1858 (“Here, in the sun in the shelter of the wood, the smooth shallow water, with the stubble standing in it, is waiting for ice. Indeed, ice that formed last night must have recently melted in it. The sight of such water now reminds me of ice as much as water.”); November 29, 1853 ("It would be worth the while to watch some water while freezing. ")

C. saw the first Vanessa Antiopa since spring. See note to July 5, 1857 (" The caterpillars of the Vanessa Antiopa.”); October 3, 1860 ("See Vanessa Antiopa”); November 1,1860 (" The butterflies are out again, — probably some new broods. I see the common yellow and two Vanessa Antiopa,”) and A Book of the Seasons : The Buff-edged Butterfly by Henry Thoreau