NATURE’S YEAR
Books by John Hay:
A PRIVATE HISTORY THE RUN NATURE’S YEAR
JOHN HAY
NATURE’S YEAR
The Seasons of Cape Cod
ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID GROSE
1961 Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 61-8166 Copyright © 1961 by John Hay All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition
For Kristi, Susan, Kitty, Rebecca, and Charles Mark--with me on this journey through the year
Contents
July 11
A Start on Cape Cod--An Entry--Other Lands within the “Narrow Land”
August 25
A Wild Home Land--The Musicians--A Walk with an Oven Bird--Toward the Sea
September 47
Youth on the Move--An Open Shore--Chipmunks
October 61
Where Is Home?--The Field of Learning--Colors of the Season--The Last Day in October
November 81
The Seed in the Season--The Clouds--The Inconstant Land--The Dead and the Living
December 97
An Old Place, an Old Man--Night in the Afternoon--Two Encounters
January 113
Exposure--Ice on the Ponds--Contrast and Response
February 127
Secrets in the Open--The Sea in the Ground--Need--Death, Man Made
March 143
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