Walden

Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts seems to inspire so many writers and artists. Even my daughter enjoys fishing on Walden Pond, which thrills me no end, since I am such a fan of this historical home. I found a lovely video about the book Walden.



I took this photograph early last Autumn in the evening, and watched as this woman enjoyed her evening swim. Looking out at the lake I could hear the words of Thoreau's book about this wonderful place...



Henry David Thoreau wrote in his work Walden, Life in the Woods:

"For the first week, whenever I looked out on the pond, it impressed me like a tarn high up on the side of the a mountain, its bottom far above the surface of other lakes, and as the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing to every direction into the woods as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle. The very dew seemed to hang upon the trees later into the day than usual, as on the side of mountains."

You can imagine my thrill when I stumbled upon this wonderful little volume, of Walden and other Writings of Henry David Thoreau,



in one of my favorite antique book shops.



This clean modern library edition originally dated 1937 was republished in 1965 by Random House. Edited with an introduction by Brooks Atkinson, and foreward by Townsend Scudder.




The book is a lovely size with burnt umber book cloth and gold lettering on the spine housing 732 pages of enchanting language which transport you back into another time and place.





For the love of old books, this treasure was placed on a shelf in my shop on etsy.



I think that Thoreau would have approved,



as this hawk watched me photograph his beautiful haven of nature.



My favorite time to be on Walden Pond, well I love all the seasons, but my favorite time of day has to be at dusk to embrace the sunset.