Thursday, August 27, 2020
Topping corn now reveals the yellowing pumpkins. September is at hand.
August 27.
Saturday. P. M. – To Walden.
Topping corn now reveals the yellowing pumpkins.
Dangle-berries very large in shady copses now; seem to love wet weather; have lost their bloom.
Aster undulatus.
The decurrent gnaphalium has not long shown yellow. Perhaps I made it blossom a little too early.
September is at hand; the first month (after the summer heat) with a burr to it, month of early frosts; but December will be tenfold rougher.
January relents for a season at the time of its thaw, and hence that liquid r in its name.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 27, 1853
Topping corn now reveals the yellowing pumpkins. See August 28, 1859 ("Pumpkins begin to be yellow."); September 4, 1859 ("Topping the corn, which has been going on some days, now reveals the yellow and yellowing pumpkins. This is a genuine New England scene. The earth blazes not only with sun-flowers but with sun-fruits."); September 18, 1858 ("The earth is yellowing in the September sun.")
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