January 15.
It has just been snowing, and this lies in shallow drifts or waves on the Great Meadows, alternate snow and ice.
Skate into a crack, and slide on my side twenty-five feet.
The river-channel dark and rough with fragments of old ice, — polygons of various forms, — cemented together, not strong.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 15, 1855
New and collected mind-prints. by Zphx. Following H.D.Thoreau 170 years ago today. Seasons are in me. My moods periodical -- no two days alike.
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