the Thoreau Log.

12 December 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Cold at last. Saw a violet on the C. Miles road where the bank had been burned in the fall. Bæomyces roseus also. Tansy still fresh yellow by the Corner Bridge. From Cliffs I see snow on the mountains . . .

(Journal, 4:427-428)