

It will have some red stains, commemorating the mornings and evenings it has witnessed some dark and rusty blotches, in memory of the clouds and foggy, mildewy days that have passed over it and a spacious field of green reflecting the general face of Nature, - green even as the fields or a yellow ground, which implies a milder flavor, - yellow as the harvest, or russet as the hills. “It is rare that the summer lets an apple go without streaking or spotting it on some part of its sphere. You can tell by how expansive he is that he has really looked closely at them:

I especially like Thoreau’s observations about the colors of apples.
