The forest before the storm

I was just going to go out to the store today, but then I saw Anali's calm before the storm photos and decided to detour via Stony Brook Reservation first, to see the forest before it's re-covered in snow again.

Even in the middle of winter, there's a surprising amount of color in the forest:

She sells sea shells by the seashore? No, but she looks at some interesting tree fungus at Stony Brook:

The reservation is named, of course, for Stony Brook, which still flows freely here before it winds up in some big pipe under Jamaica Plain: