December 27, 1857

 in Thoreau’s Journal:

What interesting contrasts our climate affords. In July you rush panting into the pond to cool yourself in the tepid water, when the stones on the bank are so heated that you cannot hold one tightly in your hand…

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— Now you walk on the same pond frozen, amid the snow, with numbered fingers and feet, and see the water target bleached and stiff in the ice.