September 28, 1854 in Thoreau’s Journal:

R. W. E.’s pines are parti-colored, preparing to fall, some of them. The sassafras trees on the hill are now wholly a bright orange scarlet as seen from my window, and the small ones elsewhere are also changed. Sweet-briar hips ripe.

Photo: September 28, 2014 in the Squam Mt. Foothills, Sandwich, New Hampshire