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3 January 1842. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I have been popping corn tonight, which is only a more rapid blossoming of the seed under a greater than July heat. The popped corn is a perfect winter flower, hinting of anemones and houstonias. For this little grace man has, mixed in with the vulgarness of his repast, he may well thank his stars.
(Journal, 1:311-312)
3 January 1847. Walden Pond.

Bronson Alcott visits Thoreau at Walden Pond (The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 186).

3 January 1848. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau lectures on “An Excursion to Ktaadn” at the Unitarian Church for the Concord Lyceum (Studies in the American Renaissance, 1995, 152-153).

Concord, Mass. A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  Evening—Mrs. A. accompanied me to the Lyceum where we heard a lecture from Thoreau on a jaunt of his to Kotarden, the highest mountain in Maine.—The lecture drew a lively picture of these wild scenes and of his adventure in ascending the rivers to reach the summit of Kotarden.
(Studies in the American Renaissance, 153; Amos Bronson Alcott Papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.)
3 January 1849. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau lectures on “White Beans and Walden Pond” at the Unitarian Church for the Concord Lyceum (Concord Lyceum records. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library; Concord Saunterer, 17, no. 3 (December 1984):23; Studies in the American Renaissance, 1995, 164-165).

3 January 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The ground has been bare for some days, and the weather warm. The river has risen, and now the meadows are frozen so as to bear,—a dark, thin, but rather opaque ice, as if covered with steam,—and I see now travelling, sweeping, coursing over it, in long winrows, fine pellets of snow, like cotton, fine, round, and dry, which I do not detect in the air before they fall . . .
(Journal, 3:174-175)
3 January 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Down railroad to Lincoln Bridge . . . Walden not yet frozen (Journal, 4:444-447).

Concord, Mass. William Ellery Channing writes in his journal:

  No ice on Walden, little on the river (William Ellery Channing notebooks and journals. Houghton Library, Harvard University).
3 January 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  It is now fairly winter. We have passed the line, have put the autumn behind us, have forgotten what these withered herbs that rise above the snow here and there are, what flowers they ever bore. They are fishing on Walden this P.M. . . .
(Journal, 6:48-49)
3 January 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Snows again. About two inches have fallen in the night, but it turns to a fine mist. It was a damp snow.

  P.M.—To Hill.

  The snow turned to a fine mist or mizzling, through evhich I see a little blue in the snow, lurking in the ruts. In the river meadows and on the (perhaps moist) sides of the hill, how common and conspicuous the brown spear-heads of the hardhack, above the snow . . .

(Journal, 8:81-83)
3 January 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Snows all day, falling level, without wind, a moist and heavy snow. Snowed part of the night also. But to my surprise a high wind arose in the night and that and the cold so dried the snow that—

  (Jan. 4) this morning it is a good deal drifted.

(Journal, 9:204)
3 January 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The slosh on Walden had so much water in it that it has now frozen perfectly smooth and looks like a semitransparent marble . . . Going to the Andromeda Ponds, I was greeted by the warm brown-red glow of the Andromeda calyculata toward the sun . . .
(Journal, 10:234-235)

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