Saturday, April 25, 2015

Spring's Fits and Starts

Yesterday's afternoon paddle on the Charles River (photo at left) wrapped up a week which included visits to the Sudbury and Nashua (with Capt'n Dangerous) rivers sandwiched around a terrestrial Earth Day patrol with Mrs. Trashpaddler.

The theme of the week was a cold and relentless wind out of the north and west with early morning sunshine that rapidly dwindled each afternoon.  Despite the fits and starts, spring continues to gain ground with grass getting green...

...and skunk cabbage leafing out...

One bonus of the still bare trees is seeing the many interesting rock formations along river banks (this one on the Charles)...
...and these along Indian Brook in Broadmoor...


Trash, like the weather, was fickle with most being found on solid ground.  Wednesday's Earth Day terrestrial patrol of roads and a brook in our town produced the most...

Thursday's trash was mostly found in the area of this otherwise beautiful Nashua River boat launch in Pepperell...

...and serves to remind that Dunkin Donuts has started yet another season of Styrofoam proliferation in the form of iced-coffee huggies...
As someone from the "Common Sense" state of Maine said "Wouldn't a napkin suffice in keeping one's fingers dry?".

A lone sign tries to dissuade...

The least trash of the week was encountered yesterday on the Charles River between Farm Rd in Sherborn and Indian Brook in Broadmoor...

Being a fan of confluences I'd never before noticed this sweet little island where Indian Brook enters the Charles, until yesterday...

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