Flotsam Sneak Preview

The sun had fought the good fight but eventually surrendered to the thickening clouds yesterday on the Assabet River.  The morning's abundant sun and relative warmth for early January drew me to a stretch of the river a bit further upstream than I usually paddle.

Before the clouds, this hawk (like myself) seemed intent on capturing every bit of available sunshine...

This beaver lodge had an unusually high mud to stick ratio...

The amount of trash was a bit on the high side for just a 2-mile stretch of river...

....almost all of it was plastic.  At least there was no Styrofoam.

Going further upstream on the Assabet than usual provided a trash preview of sorts...a bit like time travel.