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Vermonter following H.D. Thoreau 170 years ago today. A Book of the Seasons, ztonephruit.blogspot.com/search/lab…

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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 12h
Parti-colored pines – lower yellowing needles getting ready to fall. HDT ~ October 3, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-561003
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Hillsides about Walden begin to wear autumnal tints in the cooler air.
October 3 The white pines are now getting to be pretty generally parti-colored, the lower yellowing needles ready to fall.  The sumachs ...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bright scarlet berries – prinos in their prime now seen amid fresh green leaves. HDT ~ October 2, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-561002
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Silky parachutes just ready to float away when the wind rises. HDT ~ October 1, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-561001
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Silky parachutes just ready to float away.
October 1 Very heavy rain in the night; cooler now.  P. M. — To Walden.  Examine an Asclepias Cornuti pod, already opening by the wall....
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Minott said the hay they got in since the last flood was good for nothing. HDT ~ September 30, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560930
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The ebb and flow of wind in the trees - a false rain dripping from leaves. Sounds like rain nothing to see mist and cloud the dogs get wet anyway.
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The desmodium prophesy the traveller that will transport seeds. HDT ~ September 29, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560929
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The arum berries are still fresh and abundant – perhaps in their prime. HDT ~ September 28, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560928
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Scarlet berry season.
September 28   P. M. — To old mill-site behind Ponkawtasset. The arum berries are still fresh and abundant, perhaps in their prime. A larg...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That far blue mountain is but a faint blue cloud – a mist that may vanish. HDT ~ September 27, 1852 tinyurl.com/hdt-520927
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From Smith's Hill I looked toward the mountain line.
September 27   Monday. P. M.— To C. Smith's Hill.  The flashing clearness of the atmosphere. More light appears to be reflected from the ...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Colors through clear air – the trees and shrubs putting on their October dress. HDT ~ September 27, 1856 tinyurl.com/HDT560927
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The rapid fire of acorns dropping out of trees in this autumn breeze
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Single red maple bright against the cold green pines – now seen a mile off. HDT ~ September 26, 1854
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A golden-crowned thrush runs off a few feet as if she had a nest still. HDT ~ September 25, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560925
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The artist cannot be hurried – time stands still while great art is created. HDT ~ September 24, 1859
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The summer concludes with the crisis of first frosts – the end of berries. HDT ~ September 23, 1854 tinyurl.com/hdt-540923
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I collect these herbs . . . biding the time when their use shall be discovered. HDT ~ September 22, 2026 tinyurl.com/hdt-560922
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is a warm and very hazy day – wreaths of mist in horizon. You first detect your own plants when abroad – because looking for the strange. HDT ~ September 21, 1856 tinyurl.com/HDTabroad
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How soothing to sit on a stump on this height overlooking the pond and study the dimpling circles incessantly inscribed and again erased on the smooth and otherwise invisible surface amid the reflected skies! HDT ~ September 20, 1852
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Huckleberrying – a month or more for every man woman and child. HDT ~ September 19, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560919
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Witch-hazel begun – it is later with us than the fringed gentian. HDT ~ September 18, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560918
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The wise man abides each moment there where he is – restful at each step. HDT ~ September 17, 1839 tinyurl.com/hdt-390917
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Each plant has its turn! – as if the seasons revolve for it alone. . HDT ~ September 17, 1857
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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thoreau, 9.16.1852. What makes this such a day for hawks? There are eight or ten in sight from the Cliffs, large and small, one or more with a white rump. I detected the transit of the first, by his shadow on the rock, and I look toward the sun for him. [Red-shouldered hawk by Chronicle-Telegram]
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The pond and the sky a border of whitish clouds in the horizon. I detect the hawk by his shadow on the rock and look to the sun. HDT ~ September 16, 1852 tinyurl.com/hdt-520916
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ditches now crowded – how ever unexpected these later flowers! HDT ~ September 14, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560914
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How ever unexpected are these later flowers!
September 14    P. M. — To Hubbard's Close and Cardinal Ditch. cheered by the sight of Aster Novae-Angliae i bethink myself reminded that...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yellow as cool to the eye as the creak of the cricket to the ear. HDT~ September 13, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-18560913
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yellow as cool to the eye as the creak of the cricket to the ear. HDT~ September 13, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-18560913
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Here at this season a golden blaze salutes me from a thousand suns. HDT ~ September 13, 1852
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I go to Flint's Pond for the sake of mountain views from the hill beyond. HDT ~ September 12, 1851
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A fine view of the Connecticut valley and Ascutney Mountain. HDT ~ September 11, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560911
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A pair of black hawks hovering about this cliff – a new kind to me. HDT ~ September 10, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560910
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Ascended the Fall Mountain with a heavy valise on my back.
"Bellows Falls from Table Rock; From a Lithograph made in 1855” (source:  danaxtell ) September 10 10.30 A. M. — Took the cars to Bell...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A pair black hawks hovering about this cliff – a new kind to me. HDT ~ September 10, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560910
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Ascended the Fall Mountain with a heavy valise on my back.
"Bellows Falls from Table Rock; From a Lithograph made in 1855” (source:  danaxtell ) September 10 10.30 A. M. — Took the cars to Bell...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The size of its limbs the size of its canine teeth and its great white claws. HDT ~ September 9, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-cat
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The most interesting sight I saw in Brattleboro was the skin and skull of a panther.
September 9 Tuesday. 8 a.m. — Ascend the Chesterfield Mountain with Miss Frances and Miss MaryBrown.  The Connecticut is about twenty rods...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At Brattleboro botanizing Whetstone Brook after the freshet. HDT ~ September 8, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560908
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There is the hobble-bush
September 8 Brattleboro. — Rains.  Frost gives me an aster which he thinks A. concinnus of Wood; grows in woods and yet longer leav...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Raspberry in bloom fruit red and agreeable but not abundant. HDT ~ September 6, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560906
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Women and children in fields picking hops in the shade of large white sheets. HDT ~ September 5, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560905
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Archangelica – broad umbelliferous top on a zigzag stem. HDT ~ September 4, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560904
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Grasshoppers trouble me by getting into my shoes.
September 4 P. M. — To Miles Swamp, Conantum.  What are those small yellow birds with two white bars on wings, about the oak at Hubbard'...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Various berries sizes forms – elliptical oblong, globular – many stages of color. Viburnum nudum. HDT ~ September 3, 1856 tinyurl.com/HDT-560903
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Prepared for strange things my expectation ripens to discovery. HDT ~ September 2, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560902
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When schools teach colors fungi should be used by way of illustration. HDT ~ September 1, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560901
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When colors come to be taught in the schools.
September 1 P. M. — With R. W. E. to Saw Mill and Solidago odora.  He has just had four of his fir trees next his house cut, they shaded...
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Suppose a man asks not you to go with him but him to go with you! HDT ~ August 31, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560831
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Do not ask me for my afternoons.
August 31 Sunday. P. M. — To Hubbard Bath Swamp by boat. There sits one by the shore who wishes to go with me, but I cannot think of it....
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The bog in our brain and bowels – the primitive vigor of Nature. HDT ~ August 30, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560830
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An apparent white vervain with bluish flowers as blue as bluets. HDT ~ August 29, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560829
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What is a summer? Time for turtle eggs to hatch June, July, August. Nature steadily and serenely advances with a turtle's pace. HDT ~ August 28, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560828
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dark blue indigo clintonia berries of irregular form. HDT ~ August 27, 1856 tinyurl.com/wildberriesHDT
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sunny August day – weather-painted house and barn New England color. HDT ~ August 26, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560826
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This ant in my path on an errand of its own. Mailing a letter.
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The ripe choke-cherry, tolerable eating but stones much in the way. HDT ~ August 24, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560824
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A wheel of flowers pearly masses covered with bees and butterflies. HDT ~ August 23, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560823
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Faint warbling of young Maryland yellow-throats as if practicing. HDT ~ August 22, 1856 tinyurl.com/hdt-560822
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Zphx @zphx2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rains still all day wind rises and shakes off much fruit and beats down the corn. HDT ~ August 21, 2026 tinyurl.com/hdt-560821
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