1893  
May 12
(No 2)
Concord, Mass.                                                                                
  Vegetation has advanced by leaps and bounds these                               
past two days. Yesterday there was but a tinge
of green in the landscape (save that of the grass
fields & meadows). This afternoon the willows,
poplars, paper birches, white maple, hornbeams &
rum cherries were covered with small leaves and
many trees in sheltered places looked at a
distance as if in full leaf. The colors of
the belts of trees & bushes along the river were
indescribably varied and beautiful, tender greens,
intense Paris greens, salmon, pink, orange & dull
crimson mingling and blending into [delete]a[/delete] what
seemed to be a rich, yet softly tinted veil
thrown over the woods or perhaps rather like
a mist of varius hues. When I walked out along
the river path to Blakemore's knoll a little before
sunset shad bush was in bloom on every side. I 
did not notice any during my sail two hours 
earlier and believe that the blossoms opened in
the interim. A birch which Melvin & I looked at
last evening & which then was just beginning to 
unfold its leaves was dense with foliage to-night.
[margin]Progress of
vegetation[/margin]
  I saw the first Dragon Fly a rather large, greenish
species, this afternoon and this evening the first Bats
two big fellows that looked like Atatapha [cineria?], flying
over the river.
[margin]First Dragon
Fly[/margin]
  A Wood Thrush sang for some time in the twilight
on the Bedford shore. The Bittern did not pump after
dark.
[margin]Wood Thrush[/margin]