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a week past we have had washing days. The grass waving, and trees
having leaved out, their boughs wave and feel the effect of the breeze.
Thus new life and motion is imparted to the trees. The season of waving
boughs; and the lighter under sides of the new leaves are exposed. This
is the first half of June. Already the grass is not so fresh and
liquid-velvety a green, having much of it blossomed and some even gone
to seed, and it is mixed with reddish ferns and other plants, but the
general leafiness, shadiness, and waving of grass and boughs in the
breeze characterize the season. The wind is not quite agreeable,
because it prevents your hearing the birds sing. Meanwhile the crickets
are strengthening their quire. The weather is very clear, and the sky
bright. The river shines like silver. Methinks this is a traveller's
month. The locust in bloom. The waving, undulating rye. The deciduous
trees have filled up the intervals between the evergreens, and the
woods are bosky now. June 9, 1852 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 March 1 March 7 March 11 March 19 April 3 May 1 May 3 May 9 May 10 May 19 May 20 May 24 May 26 May 27 May 29 May 31 June 3 |