Since visiting my site last, all the leaves have dropped to the ground, except for the Eastern Hemlock and Northern White Pine’s needles. The bittersweet still clings to its bright red berries, standing out among all the gray and brown surrounding them (as pictured below). The ferns also stay bright green, as predicted by December’s chapter in ‘Naturally Curious’.
The brook has frozen completely in the small offshoots, stopping the flow of water in those small areas and increasing the flow in the brook. The edges of the main brook had thinly frozen as well. The foamy bubbles the small waterfalls created have frozen, forming a cool formation.
More logs and leaves had fallen into the brook and dammed it. At first glance, I thought it was a beaver dam, but the brook is much too shallow for a beaver, and the pile was too unorganized. Though it was cool to see how that had shifted the flow of the brook.
And here are some more pictures I took that I just like:
