P. M. – To Beck Stow's.
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| June 9, 2018 |
I notice by the roadside at Moore's Swamp the very common Juncus effusus, not quite out, one to two and a half feet high.
See a yellow spotted turtle digging her hole at 5 P.M., in a pasture near Beck Stow's, some dozen rods off. It is made under one side like the picta’s.
Potamogetons begin to prevail in the river and to catch my oar. The river is weedy.
White maple keys are abundantly floating.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 9, 1858
See a yellow spotted turtle digging her hole. See June 6, 1855(“I see a yellow-spotted tortoise twenty rods from river”); June 11, 1854 (“I saw a yellow-spotted tortoise come out, — undoubtedly to lay its eggs, — which had climbed to the top of a hill as much as a hundred and thirty feet above any water.”); June 15, 1857 (“From time to time passed a yellow-spot or a painted turtle in the path, for now is their laying-season.”); June 16, 1858 (“I see a yellow-spotted turtle digging its hole at mid afternoon, but, like the last of this species I saw, it changed its place after I saw it, and I did not get an egg; it is so wary.”) See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The Yellow-Spotted Turtle (Emys guttata)
White maple keys are abundantly floating. See May 29, 1854 ("The white maple keys have begun to fall and float down the stream.”); May 30, 1853 ("The white maple keys falling and covering the river."); June 2, 1856 ("White maple keys conspicuous.”)
June 9. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, June 9
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”
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