the Thoreau Log.
14 October 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A sudden change in the weather after remarkablly warm and pleasant weather. Rained in the night and finger-cold to-day. Your hands instinctively find their way to your pockets. Leaves are fast falling, and they are already past their brightness, perhaps earlier than usual on account of wet.

  P.M.—To Hubbard’s Close.

  Huckleberries perfectly plump and fresh on the often bare bushes (always (else) red-leaved). The bare gray twigs begin to show, the leaves fast falling. The maples are nearly bare. The leaves of red maples, still bright, strew the ground, often crimson-spotted on a yellow ground . . .

(Journal, 9:112-113)

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