Very early spring urban nature: Stony Brook Reservation

Taking a look around the Stony Brook Reservation we noticed it was unusually dry: the little swamp I usually photograph was a mud puddle. Here what should be a lush carpet of moss is cracking as the soil below it dries and splits.


Here's something I haven't seen before: turkey tail mushrooms (apparently fresh, from whenever the last rains were) emerging from a burnt log.


Winter is gone, cry the pussy willows as they explode into flower.

A walk along Mother Brook

One of the woodsy natural areas in Dedham is actually a man-made feature. Mother Brook was the first canal dug in the United States, allowing commerce to flow from the slow-moving Charles down to the Neponset.
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