Pompositticut Waters in this Friendly February

It would have been easy to imagine it was early March out on Fort Meadow Brook in Stow this afternoon.  Ordinarily, ice would have prevented boating into the brook from the Assabet River.  The photo at left shows the view as I returned downstream toward the point where brook and river join.
Once more, my boat and I made it under this low bridge...

In addition to the usual pieces of trash, there were these other hitchhikers out on the water today...

My guess is stonefly and they were out in considerable numbers.
Also seen in good numbers were mallards and Canada geese, along with a mink, and a musquash.

After visiting Fort Meadow Brook, I paddled downriver to Crow Island and found the shallow waters north of the island ice-free...

The moon is getting closer to its full stage when it will become the "Snow Moon" (sans snow perhaps)...

 Upon landing at Sudbury Road, trash that came ashore posed in the late day sunshine...

There were 37 in all: 14 recyclable containers (2 redeemable) and 23 pieces of miscellaneous rubbish such as plastic, styrofoam, nip bottles, and a lost sneaker.  YTD = 582