"By the 25th of September, the Red Maples generally are beginning to be ripe. Some large ones have been conspicuously changing for a week, and some single trees are now very brilliant."

Chris Neal/Capital Journal/AP
In these five passages from "Autumnal Tints," Henry David Thoreau celebrates October.
"By the 25th of September, the Red Maples generally are beginning to be ripe. Some large ones have been conspicuously changing for a week, and some single trees are now very brilliant."
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