4.14.2014

in blossom April 19, 1775
...Thoreau's Journal: 14-Apr-1852

Can we believe when beholding this landscape, with only a few buds visibly wollen on the trees and the ground covered eight inches deep with snow, that the rain was waving in the fields and the apple trees were in blossom April 19, 1775? It may confirm this story, however, what Grandmother said,—that she carried ripe cherries from Weston to her brother in Concord Jail the 17th of June the same year. It is probably true, what E. Wood, senior, says, that the grain was just beginning to wave, and the apple blossoms beginning to expand.

Abel Hunt tells me to-night that he remembers that the date of the old Hunt house used to be on the chimney, and it was 1703, or 1704, within a year or two; that Governor Winthrop sold the farm to a Hunt, and they have the deed now. There is one of the old-fashioned diamond squares set in lead still, in the back part of the house.

The snow goes off fast, for I hear it melting and the eaves dripping all night as well as all day.

3 comments:

michael jameson said...

to the one who wanted to know who i am ! im michael you may contact me as others do at my email ,i have made a great many friends this way,and i will have a sight up soon called thoreau and beyond im working on it now.

michael jameson said...

we all have such memories and some we are so willing to share, its a little piece of ourselves we give, we all see things differently to some degree,that is a good thing!,and as the planet changes so does the weather,some are skeptic and would see a distorted memory when the elderly tell a story and time, its natural,even so breath in their story as a tribe that tells its heritage by passing it to the young, you will benefit from it so. michael jameson oldantiqueguy@hotmail.com

michael jameson said...

im still reading everyday and keep savoring the words of thoreau ! so im still here ! and thank to my friends and there emails and most of all to sonny!?