Our moods vary from week to week, with the winds and the temperature and the revolution of the seasons. It is impossible to remember a week ago. A river of Lethe flows with many windings the year through, separating one season from another.
I smell the blossoms of the willows, the row of Salix alba on Swamp Bridge Brook, a quarter of a mile to windward, the wind being strong. The Salix tristis is in bloom.
The young birch leaves reflect the light in the sun.
The first shad-bush, Juneberry, or service-berry (Amclanchier canadensis), in blossom
The young birch leaves reflect the light in the sun.
The first shad-bush, Juneberry, or service-berry (Amclanchier canadensis), in blossom
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| May 9, 2012 |
See a green snake, twenty or more inches long, on a bush,
hanging over a twig with its head held forward six inches into the air, without
support and motionless. What there for?
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 9, 1852
Our moods vary from week to week, with the winds and the temperature and the revolution of the seasons. See April 24, 1859 ("The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature’s.”); September 24, 1859 ("I would know when in the year to expect certain thoughts and moods”); January 23, 1858 (“It is in vain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.”); October 26, 1857 ("The seasons and all their changes are in me. ... My moods are thus periodical, not two days in my year alike.”); December 16, 1853 (" Would you be well, see that you are attuned to each mood of nature.”). See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Moods and Seasons of the Mind.
The first Viola pedata and also, in a low place, the first Viola cucullata. That I observed the first of May was a V. ovata, a variety of sagittate. . . See May 20, 1852 The Viola ovata is of a deep purple blue, is darkest and has most of the red in it; the V. pedata is smooth and pale-blue, delicately tinged with purple reflections; the cucullata is more decidedly blue, slaty-blue, and darkly striated.”). See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau,The Violets
Our moods vary from week to week, with the winds and the temperature and the revolution of the seasons. See April 24, 1859 ("The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature’s.”); September 24, 1859 ("I would know when in the year to expect certain thoughts and moods”); January 23, 1858 (“It is in vain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.”); October 26, 1857 ("The seasons and all their changes are in me. ... My moods are thus periodical, not two days in my year alike.”); December 16, 1853 (" Would you be well, see that you are attuned to each mood of nature.”). See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Moods and Seasons of the Mind.
The first Viola pedata and also, in a low place, the first Viola cucullata. That I observed the first of May was a V. ovata, a variety of sagittate. . . See May 20, 1852 The Viola ovata is of a deep purple blue, is darkest and has most of the red in it; the V. pedata is smooth and pale-blue, delicately tinged with purple reflections; the cucullata is more decidedly blue, slaty-blue, and darkly striated.”). See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau,The Violets
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