While awaiting some helpful rainfall I've been paddling waterways closer to home such as the Assabet River in Gleasondale (above).
Started the week on Sunday paddling with Oz and Roger...
...on the Sudbury River in Wayland. On our way upriver we passed this sectional sofa...
...presently aground. Removing it someday will present some muddy challenges to whomever takes it on.
We paid a visit to the historical marker for Wayland's Old Town Bridge...
On Monday, my grandson John and I followed-up our recent paddling of Walden Pond by paddling the nearby Sudbury River above and below Fairhaven Bay...
A couple of deer sporting their winter coats...
On Wednesday the Assabet in Stow was found to be choked in places with mats of floating grass...
A great egret waited patiently at water's edge...
Ended the week Saturday on the Concord River where the Egg Rock inscription shows just how low the water levels remain...
...despite our receiving about a quarter inch of rain on Thursday night.
Things were unusually quiet at the Old North Bridge for a Saturday morning...
...perhaps due to some repair projects being underway...possibly in preparation for next April's 250th anniversary.
Trash was on the light side all week:
From the Sudbury River...
From the Assabet River (where most was found in the grass at the launch site)...
From the Concord River...
Came across an old Sawyer's Crystal Blueing bottle from the late 1800s or early 1900s in the Concord River...
The Concord River also had this throwback 1976 Falstaff Liberty Bell Bicentennial beer can...
The glass Sawyer's bottle likely over 100 years old looks good as new whereas the beer can is approaching 50 years old and looks a lot worse for wear.
Encountered this steel or possibly cast-iron? tank (about 3' or 4' long) with a stainless steel valve on one end...
If not for the valve, it looks a bit like an old canon. Heavy yes, under pressure...who knows? This sleeping dog can be left as is.
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