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Here
is our first spring morning according to the almanac. It is remarkable
that the spring of the almanac and of nature should correspond so
closely. The morning of the 26th was good winter, but there came a
plentiful rain in the afternoon, and yesterday and to-day are quite
springlike. This morning the air is still, and, though clear enough, a
yellowish light is widely diffused throughout the east, now just after
sunrise. The sunlight looks and feels warm, and a fine vapor fills the
lower atmosphere. I hear the phoebe or spring note of the chickadee,
and the scream of the jay is perfectly repeated by the echo from a
neighboring wood. For some days past the surface of the earth, covered
with water, or with ice where the snow is washed off, has shone in the
sun as it does only at the approach of spring, methinks. And are not
the frosts in the morning more like the early frosts in the fall -
common white frosts? March 1, 1854 Other Entries October 29 November 1 November 6 November 10 November 11 November 14 November 20 November 27 December 6 December 16 January 7 February 21 February 25 |