It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.
Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.
Mary Ellen headed over to Cow Island Pond - the part of the Charles off Rivermoor Road in West Roxbury - around sunset and spotted this merganser with its butt seemingly on fire in the setting sun.
Earlier:
She's just a bird and she's on FIYAH
Did you notice it briefly got lighter for a bit a little after 1? Alisa Bokulich looked out from her office at BU and captured the rainbow that sprang up over Cambridge before it got dark and stormy again.
David Fisher spotted it, too, from his aerie in the Seaport: Read more.
Frederick Hewett has lived within a mile of the Charles River for 40 years now:
As you spend more time around Boston, the Charles infuses into your consciousness.
Smoke coming up from below the bridge before it was shut. Photo by Danny.
Guy wants to row a giant pumpkin down the Charles River, but the 1,000-lb. pumpkin he's apparently procured for his Oct. 14 orange ride is just too large to get from the truck to the river without a forklift, so now he's hoping some kind soul with a forklift to spare will help him out in his hour of need. No word on what he's doing (done?) with all the pumpkin guts, what he plans to do once he gets to the locks or whether DCR has said OK, but first things first.
Handmaid watched the sunrise over the Charles River, Back Bay and downtown Boston.
There are plenty of big things to see on a walk on the path along the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Big trees, big sky and a wide river (now that rainfall is back to normal). But look carefully and there are all sorts of interesting little things to see as well. Read more.
This abandoned motorboat sat at the Millennium Park canoe launch yesterday, soaking up rain with no motor and stripped of all its wiring and gauges.
Ksenia Dunn got a good view of yesterday's rainbow over (and into!) the Charles River, along with some UFOs (OK, she says they were really just reflections from the office lights on her window).
Mary Ellen's been watching the birds chow down on berries along the Charles River in West Roxbury the past couple of days, such as this catbird.
A cedar waxwing also eats up: Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted an American bullfrog at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today - from the eyes up, at any rate.
Mary Ellen spotted all these used tennis balls at the canoe launch on the Charles River at Millennium Park today. A sacrifice, or an attempt to give all the dog owners who bring their pets there something to throw into the river for them to fetch?
Mary Ellen captured this muskrat (or some other rodenty critter) chowing down along the Charles River in West Roxbury the other day.
The Charles River Conservancy has announced its canceled tomorrow's City Splash swim event at the Esplanade due to forecast "heavy rain and potential thunderstorms" that would make swimming unsafe.
The group had set Sunday as its rain date, but it's been forced to cancel that as well, because all the rain Saturday could mean unsafe levels of potentially harmful microorganisms via pipes that still drain into the river.
Imagine this as an ice-cream stand and coffee house.
DCR has hired a landscape architect to draw up possible plans for returning Havey Beach, along the Charles River across from the VA Hospital in West Roxbury, into a place where people would actually want to go again. Read more.
Mary Ellen watched this beaver at Cow Island Pond (the part of the Charles off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury) make several trips with fresh greens the other day - so maybe bringing lunch home for the kids, rather than doing construction.
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department plans to clean up the banks of the Charles River at Millennium Park by trying to rid the area of Japanese knotweed and oriental bittersweet and by removing various metal tanks and tubes that have popped up from the park's previous life as the Gardner Street city landfill. Read more.
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