August 29.
Though it is early, my neighbor's hens have strayed far into the fog toward the river.
I find a wasp in my window, which already appears to be taking refuge from winter and unspeakable fate.
Might I not walk a little further, till I hear new crickets, till their creak has acquired some novelty, as if they were a new species whose habitat I had reached?
The air is filled with mist, yet a transparent mist, a principle in it you might call flavor, which ripens fruits This haziness seems to confine and concentrate the sunlight, as if you lived in a halo. It is August.
A flock of forty-four young turkeys with their old, half a mile from a house on Conantum by the river, the old faintly gobbling, the half-grown young peeping. Turkey-men
Gerardia glauca (quercifolia, says one), tall gerardia, one flower only left; also Corydalis glauca
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 29, 1851
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