Cloud Paddling

That's what it felt like while paddling bits of the lower Sudbury and Assabet rivers yesterday in Concord.  The Elm Street Bridge (opening photo) was approached after passing beneath the fog-shrouded commuter rail and Main Street bridges...

Before the fog moved in, the ice sheet at Egg Rock's inscription revealed the rapid rise in water level resulting from Saturday morning's rain and snow melt...

Egg Rock from the point where the three rivers meet...

On the lower Assabet a row boat which had been swept downriver sat snagged below a submerged Dove Rock...

...and will need to be bailed out...

...as a first step in its retrieval.

Willow Island is graced by a well built home...

..intentionally built to weather times like this when the island is awash.

All that water had trash of a mostly plastic nature on the move as well...