Tuesday, December 5, 2017

A few flakes

December 5

At noon a few flakes fall.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, December 5, 1857


See  December 16, 1857 ("Begins to snow about 8 A. M., and in fifteen minutes the ground is white, but it soon stops."); December 26, 1857 ("Snows all day, — first snow of any consequence, three or four inches in all.")/ See also  November 20, 1857 ("I see a few flakes of snow, two or three only, like flocks of gossamer, straggling in a slanting direction to the ground, unnoticed by most, in a rather raw air.");  December 9, 1855 ("At 8.30 a fine snow begins to fall, increasing very gradually, perfectly straight down, till in fifteen minutes the ground is white . . . But in a few minutes it turns to rain, and so the wintry landscape is postponed for the present.”); and  note to November 29, 1856 ("This is the first snow.")

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