Sun-warmed pond side

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience primary

Thoreau observes autumn color across the pond, describes wasps living in his lodge as winter nears, and explains warming himself by sun on Walden’s northeast side before going into winter quarters.

have been the inventor and bestower of it; and when the reign of poetry commences here, its leaves and string of nuts may be represented on our works of art. Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water. Ah, many a tale their color told! And gradually from w…