Lightning this evening, after a day of successive rains.

March 8.

Steady rain on the roof in the night, suggesting April-like warmth. This will help melt the snow and ice and take the frost out of the ground. 

What pretty wreaths the mountain cranberry makes, curving upward at the extremity! The leaves are now a dark, glossy red, and wreath and all are of such a shape as might fitly be copied in wood or stone or architectural foliages. 

I wrote a letter for an Irishman night before last, sending for his wife in Ireland to come to this country. One sentence which he dictated was, "Don't mind the rocking of the vessel, but take care of the children that they be not lost overboard." 

Lightning this evening, after a day of successive rains.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 8, 1854

Lightning this evening, after a day of successive rains. See February 15, 1861("A little thunder and lightning late in the afternoon"); February 23, 1860 ("About 4 P. M. a smart shower, ushered in by thunder and succeeded by a brilliant rainbow "); March 16, 1854 (“ It is warm weather. A thunder-storm in the evening.”); March 25, 1860 ("The 9th, it is quite warm, with a southwest wind. The first lightning is seen in the horizon by one who is out in the evening")