This past week showcased the many changes beginning to take place along our local rivers. On Tuesday a Sudbury River paddle from Egg Rock to Fairhaven Bay was undertaken under bright sunny skies with temperatures near 60 degrees F. Real spring-like warmth was felt for a change.
The inscription at Egg Rock (opening photo) stood clean and dry for the first time in quite awhile as water levels have returned to something approaching normal. Evidence of the previously higher levels included this macabre reminder of winter's unforgiving nature...
Hard to tell what kind of critter it is.
The South Bridge Boat House was looking good...
Reached Fairhaven Bay and found it almost entirely ice-free...
...except for the slough leading into the Lincoln Canoe Launch which was still iced over...
Across the river was this reminder that sugar maple sap is beginning to flow...
A colorful assortment of boats await their owners...
Yesterday on the Nashua River in Harvard, MA I happily welcomed the month of March and the arrival of meteorological spring...
Post paddle and while strapping down my boat a train horn was heard to the south. It preceded the arrival of CSX Train 426 enroute to Portland, ME seen crossing the Nashua River...
The train would pull to a stop at the Still River Depot Road crossing...
Trash from the Sudbury River was light on Tuesday...
...but changed to a bit heavier plastic content from the Nashua River on Friday...
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