Clear Sailing on the Assabet

Before ascending the Assabet River this paddler always checks the water level on the Egg Rock inscription.  Yesterday, on Presidents Day, the level proved perfect for unimpeded paddling to West Concord and Warner's Pond.

Paddlers paddling Nashoba Brook can, at this level, easily reach the end of the line at the Warner's Pond dam where a wooded eagle maintains vigil...

Back to the Assabet in time to see an inbound MBTA commuter train cross the river...

A little further upriver, where the Old Colony RR once crossed, is the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail bridge...

Returning downriver brought me by these saplings sporting a reddish tint...

Some gathered-up trash...

Good article in Saturday's Boston Globe entitled "Bottle Battle" by David Abel.  Hope springs eternal for expanding our Massachusetts Bottle Bill.  If common sense prevails it can't lose.  However, the bottling industry's big bucks have a way of trumping common sense...which after all isn't really that common.  OK, I'm jaded and I admit it.