Summer's Last Moments

 

The Merrimack River in Chelmsford and Tyngsborough, MA on Monday morning proved an ideal place to spend the last few hours of summer.

Launched at Southwell Park in North Chelmsford and enjoyed the river between the mouth of Stony Brook...

...and a little ways above Wickasee Island's northern tip.

The nearly mile-long island also known as Tyng's Island...

A little north of the island in a shallow cove are these rocks...

...one of which retains an iron loop...

...where, perhaps long ago, riverboats laden with freight tied up while waiting to enter the lock and short canal around Wicassic Falls.

I wasn't the only one enjoying summer's last moments...

Trash gathered up along the way...

One additional piece of trash encountered after the above photo was this plastic donut?...

...in corporate colors?