Trail Wood #15.09

Trail Wood #15.09 by Earl Plato

Writer’s Note: Three times U have been to Thoreau’s Walden Pond all during the summer time. The first visit in 154 I walked to he edge of the pond. Across the way was Thoreau’s cabin. Edwin Teale writes about Thoreau’s winter experience at his pond. Teale wrote.: “ Beside that larger body of water, Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau listened to the same sound of winter ice movements. “ The pond began to boom about an hour after sunrise when it felt the influence of the sun’s rays slanted upon it from over the hills …” he writes in the “Spring” chapter of Walden. Local anglers fishing through the ice believed the “thundering of the pond” scared the fish and prevented them from biting. This booming of the ice we hear but rarely at Trail Wood.”