Thursday, January 16, 2025

Winter's Tightening Grip

 


As the ice on rivers and streams gets thicker with each passing day any hopes for getting out on the water anytime soon is fading.  Fort Pond Brook in Concord, MA is pictured above.  Best I can hope for these days is hiking along a streamside trail...

Reached one such trail today via this abandoned bridge at the Acton/Concord town line...

The beaver dam just upstream from  the bridge as it looked from my boat 4 weeks ago...
...compared with how it looked today from atop the bridge...
 

Olm Man Winter is in full control now and I'm left with no choice but to salute the change-of-state power he holds upon water.  My only comfort comes in knowing that meteorological spring is only 43 days away. 
 
This tree shows how one can bend without breaking...

 
 Some plastic containers encountered along the trail this week...






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