March 27, 1842. Sunday. The eye must be firmly anchored to this earth which beholds birches and pines waving in the breeze in a certain...

March 26, 1853. P. M. Up Assabet to stone-heaps, in boat. A warm, moist, April-like afternoon, with wet-looking sky, and misty. For the...

March 12, 1854. P. M. To Ball's Hill along river. Saw some ducks, black and white, —perhaps teal or widgeons. This great expanse of...

March 10, 1853. This is the first really spring day. The sun is brightly reflected from all surfaces…. P. M. To Second Division Brook....

March 2, 1860. 2 P.M. Thermometer 50. …. There is a strong westerly wind to-day, though warm, and we sit under Dennis's Lupine...

Feb. 27, 1854. Morning. - Rain over; water in great part run off; wind rising; river risen and meadows flooded. The rain-water and melted...

Feb. 19, 1852. .... To White Pond. Considering the melon-rind arrangement of the clouds, by an ocular illusion the bars appearing to...

Feb. 16, 1855. Still rains a little this morning. .... Ground half bare, but frozen and icy yet. P.M. To Cliff via Spanish Brook. A...

Feb. 8, 1858. P.M. To Walden and Goose Pond. I walked about Goose Pond, looking for the large blueberry bushes. I see many which have...

Feb. 5, 1854. P. M. To walk. Begins to snow. At Hubbard's blueberry swamp woods, near the bathing-place, came across a fox's track,...

Feb. 2, 1855. Quite clear and colder, yet it could not refrain from snowing half an inch more in the night, whitening the ground now, as...

Jan. 31, 1860. 2 P. M. To Bedford Level. Thermometer 45. Fair but all overcast. Sun's place quite visible. Wind southwest. Went to what...

Jan. 27, 1855. Yesterday's driving easterly snow-storm turned to sleet in the evening, and then to rain, and this morning it is clear...

Jan. 21, 1855. 2.30 P.M. — The sky has gradually become overcast, and now it is just beginning to snow. Looking against a dark roof, I...

Jan. 16, 1860. P. M. Down Boston road around Quail Hill. Very warm. —45 degrees at 2 P.M. There is a tender crust on the snow, and the...

Jan. 14, 1852. When I see the dead stems of the tansy, goldenrod, johnswort, asters, hardback, etc., etc., rising above the snow by the...

Jan. 10., 1859. P.M. Up Assabet.... Cold weather at last; 8 this forenoon. This is much the coldest afternoon to bear as yet, but, cold...

Jan. 8., 1855. 7.30 A.M. To river. Still warm and cloudy, but with a great crescent of clear sky increasing in the north by west. The...

Jan. 7, 1854. Saturday. Thaw ended. Cold last night; rough walking; snow crusted. P. M. To Ministerial Swamp. The bare larch trees...

Jan. 6, 1855. P. M. To Great Meadows. What is that small insect with large, slender wings, which I see on the snow or fluttering in the...