When schools teach colors
fungi should be used by way
of illustration.
You almost envy
the wood frogs and toads that hop
amid such gems.
~ September 1, 1856
Prepared for strange things
my expectation ripens
to discovery.
~ September 2, 1856
Various berries
sizes forms – elliptical
oblong, globular –
many stages of color.
Viburnum nudum.
~ September 3, 1856
Archangelica –
broad umbelliferous top
on a zigzag stem.
~ September 4, 1856
Women and children
in fields picking hops in the
shade of large white sheets.
~ September 5, 1856
Raspberry in bloom
fruit red and agreeable
but not abundant.
~ September 6, 1856
At Brattleboro
botanizing Whetstone Brook
after the freshet.
~ September 8, 1856
The size of its limbs
the size of its canine teeth
and its great white claws.
~ September 9, 1856
A pair of black hawks
hovering about this cliff –
a new kind to me.
~ September 10, 1856
A fine view of the
Connecticut valley and
Ascutney Mountain.
~ September 11, 1856
Yellow as cool to
the eye as the creak of the
cricket to the ear.
~ September 13, 1856
Ditches now crowded –
how ever unexpected
these later flowers!
~ September 14, 1856
Witch-hazel begun –
it is later with us than
the fringed gentian.
~ September 18, 1856
Huckleberrying –
a month or more for every
man woman and child.
~ September 19, 1856
It is a warm and
very hazy day – wreaths of
mist in horizon.
~ September 21, 1856
You first detect your
own plants when abroad – because
looking for the strange.
~ September 21, 1856
I collect these herbs . . .
biding the time when their use
shall be discovered.
HDT ~ September 22, 1856
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A golden-crowned thrush
runs off a few feet as if
she had a nest still.
~ September 25, 1856
Colors through clear air –
the trees and shrubs putting on
their October dress.
~ September 27, 1856
The arum berries
are still fresh and abundant –
perhaps in their prime.
~ September 28, 1856
The desmodium
prophesy the traveller
that will transport seeds.
~ September 29, 1856
Minott said the hay
they got in since the last flood
was good for nothing.
~ September 30, 1856
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