People weren't the only ones taking advantage of today's nice weather. Mary Ellen watched a great blue heron gulp down some frog legs - and the rest of the frog - at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Bottom's up: Read more.
People weren't the only ones taking advantage of today's nice weather. Mary Ellen watched a great blue heron gulp down some frog legs - and the rest of the frog - at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Bottom's up: Read more.
Caroline Reeves of the Muddy Water Initiative reports that MassDOT divers (of course MassDOT has divers) today retrieved 131 traffic cones that some bike-lane hater had tossed over the side of the Mass. Ave. Bridge onto the iced-over Charles River last month. Read more.
Victor H spotted one of the heroes we need but don't deserve on the Charles River today, trying to collect the cones that somebody keeps tossing onto the ice from the Mass. Ave. Bridge because he really, really hates bike lanes. Read more.
Sara Mak took in an afternoon rainbow over Kendall Square, the Charles and the Longfellow, after the morning rainbow (note: click on the link for bonus dog in boots on a dock).
Kelly Lewis watched the sunrise from a classroom at the Jackson/Mann School in Allston.
Saul Blumenthal, meanwhile, watched the sunrise along the Charles River in Waltham: Read more.
Roving UHub photographer John McMahon got up early to rove over to the Charles River to watch the sun come up over Boston this morning.
The Huntington News reports on the smaller set of races, which, unlike the bigger, better known regatta, draws competitors just from the Boston area (and Rhode Island).
Myron Freeman captured the early evening over the Charles River and the Longfellow last night.
Copyright Myron Freeman. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Roving UHub photographer John McMahon captured the scene along the Charles at sunrise this morning.
David Mickley watched a squadron of SEALs in copters fly along the Charles today: Read more.
Roving UHub photographer John McMahon captures some roving rowers from Newton Country Day School, with bonus geese, in the Head of the Charles Regatta around 7:40 this morning.
Myron Freeman captured last night's full moon.
Copyright Myron Freeman. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
All of the riverside parking lots along Soldiers Field Road in Brighton today were filled with rowers and racing shells in preparation for this weekend's Head of the Charles Regatta.
Ng took in a double rainbow over the Charles and Boston this afternoon. Read more.
The MWRA and the Boston Water and Sewer Commission are reporting that "combined sewer outfalls" dumped raw and treated sewage, along with lots of rainwater, into area waterways overnight because of all the rain - but that the flow means people didn't have to worry about sewage backing up into their homes and businesses. Read more.
The Cambridge Fire Department reports a search of the Charles River for a swimmer in trouble ended this afternoon with the recovery of a man's body.
This snake was hanging out this afternoon in Millennium Park in West Roxbury, near where Sawmill Brook enters the Charles.