The elms are at least half bare.

October 13. 

October 13, 2018

Rain, all day, more or less, which the cloudy and rather still yesterday threatened. 

October 13, 2018

Elm leaves thickly strew the street now and rattle underfoot,—the dark brown pavement. The elms are at least half bare.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 13, 1858

The elms are at least half bare. See September 29,1854 ("The elm leaves have in some places more than half fallen"); October 6 & 7, 1853 ("Windy. Elms bare."); October 10, 1853 ("Cooler and windy at sunset, and the elm leaves come down again.”); October 12, 1852 ("The elms in the village, losing their leaves, reveal the birds' nests.”); October 17, 1857 (“A great many more ash trees, elms, etc., are bare now.”); October 19, 1856 (“Both the white and black ash are quite bare, and some of the elms there.”); October 26, 1854 ("Apple trees are generally bare, as well as bass, ash, elm, maple.”)  See also  October 9, 1857 ("The elms are now at the height of their change. As I look down our street, which is lined with them, now clothed in their very rich brownish-yellow dress, they remind me of yellowing sheaves of grain, as if the harvest had come to the village itself")