A Shallow and Glassy Sudbury

 

Got out on the Sudbury River twice this past week.   On Monday, July 4th, I paddled upriver passing under the above pictured Route 2.  The inscription at Egg Rock, where I'd started from, was high and dry attesting to how low the water level is these days...

 Yesterday I paddled the stretch upriver from Route 20 in Wayland...

...where the river water level was even lower.  

Wildlife seen on the river this past week included this regal heron owning the high ground...

...and this doe...

...a Muscovy duck...

...and this gang of young ducks, perhaps siblings just "chillin'"...

One good-sized snapping turtle...

...and this perhaps yet to fledge eaglet...

Low water levels exposed these old-timey bottles...

The first one I came upon was a GOLDEN DOME, BOSTON bottle holding "1 pint and 12 flu oz".  GOLDEN DOME BOTTLING CO. was embossed at the bottle's heel.  Coming upon it caused me to wonder what our legislature is doing under the Golden Dome of the Statehouse in regards to updating our "Bottle Bill".  This bottle may date to the 1930's?

A 1-pint milk bottle was next having its identifying info on the bottle's base... 

According to the article "The Dating Game: Thatcher Glass Mfg. Co." by Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz, Carol Serr, and Bill Lindsey this style of bottle was once known as the "Common-Sense" milk bottle for the way it was sealed at the top.  Believe it dates to 1919.

Last but not least was a blob-top soda/beer bottle embossed with "J.M. McMANUS, HOPKINTON, MASS" with a big number 3 embossed on the base.  It probably dates to either the late 1800's or the early 1900's. 

Trash for the week...

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