A Book of the Seasons: August 21.

August 21.

Measure the progress 

of the season by the clock 

of the blue vervain . . .

so you get not the

absolute time – but the true 

time of the season.

August 21, 1851

Bees on goldenrods

improve their time before the

sun of the year sets.

August 21, 1852

Rains all day and wind 

rises and shakes off much fruit

and beats down the corn.

August 21, 1856

August 21, 2019

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality."

~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2015