Cambridge, Massachusetts
The smallest Sugar-Maples in our streets make a great show
as early as the fifth of October,
more than any other trees there.
As I look up the Main Street,
they appear like painted screens standing before the houses...
But now, or generally by the seventeenth of October,
when almost all Red Maples and some White Maples, are bare,
the large Sugar-Maples are in their glory,
glowing...
All the sunny warmth of the season,
the Indian summer,
seems to be absorbed in their leaves...
HENRY D. THOREAU, Autumnal Tints
