Launched into the Nashua River at Ice House Dam in Ayer, MA yesterday and was surprised, to see water flowing over the dam...
...especially considering our drought conditions of late.
Compare the view above with how the dam looked back on June 17 when there was hardly a bucket-full spilling over...
Headed upriver from the dam and checked out a few of the many sloughs. In one slough were these tiny yellow flowers...
...which I later learned may be bladderwort...a plant that rivals the pitcher plant in the ability to devour aquatic organisms swimming below the surface.
Back out the river a floating face looked skyward...
A mannequin head...with a story to tell I'm sure.
A balloon also looked to the sky...
The Nashua was a fine place to spend an August morning...
Eventually it was back to the falls where this sign makes a simple and reasonable request...
A fair amount of trash was encountered...
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