Black willows lose leaves and the shore begins to look quite Novemberish.

October 8. 

October 8, 2018

Fine pasture grass seen in the sun, begins to.look faded and bleached like the corn.  

Strong northwest wind. The button-bushes and black willows are rapidly losing leaves, and the shore begins to look Novemberish. 

Mulberry leaves of ash are apparently dulled.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 8, 1858

Strong northwest wind.   See October 2, 1858 ("Sailed to Baker Farm with a strong northwest wind."); October 20, 1857 ("There is a very strong northwest wind, Novemberish and cool, raising waves on the river and admonishing to prepare for winter."); October 20, 1859 ("I see a large and very straggling flock of crows . . . contending with the strong and cold northwest wind. This is the annual phenomenon."); October 25, 1853 ("Sail down river to the pitch pine hill behind Abner Buttrick's, with a strong northwest wind, and cold. "); October 27, 1851 ("The strong northwest wind blows the damp snow along almost horizontally. The birds fly about as if seeking shelter. The cold numbs my fingers.")

The button-bushes and black willows are rapidly losing leaves, and the shore begins to look Novemberish. See October 4, 1857 ("The button-bushes are generally greenish-yellow now; only the highest and most exposed points brown and crisp in some places. The black willow, rising above them, is crisped yellowish-brown, so that the general aspect of the river's brim now is a modest or sober ripe yellowish-brown"); October 4, 1858 ("Many white and red maple, bass, elm, and black willow leaves are strewn over the surface of the water, light, crisp colored skiffs."); October 9, 1853 ("The birch is yellow; the black willow brown; the elms sere, brown, and thin; the bass bare."); October 10, 1858 ("November has already come to the river with the fall of the black willow and the button-bush, . . . letting in the autumn light to the water"); October 12, 1858 ("Most exposed button-bushes and black willows are two thirds bare, and the leaves which remain on the former are for the most part brown and shrivelled."); October 15, 1856 (“Banks begin to wear almost a Novemberish aspect. The black willow almost completely bare”); October 16, 1859 ("The button-bushes are just bare, and the black willows partly so"); October 22, 1857 (“The black willows along the river are about as bare as in November.”); October 25, 1855 ("The willows along the river now begin to look faded and somewhat bare and wintry. The dead wool-grass, etc., characterizes the shore. The meadows look sere and straw-colored.”)

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