Dan Tobin was facing the Citgo sign on the way home from Cambridge this evening:

... It's a landmark I invariably associate with the Red Sox and tonight I realized that, no matter how the season ended up - with us as champions or the hated Yankees taking the crown - this is the time of year when baseball is in hibernation. It won't be long before being outside itself is a chore and means braving the nasty winter that comprises half the Boston year. It made me a little sad facing up to this reality. But it also made me thankful to know that one day the Sox will come back, the cold weather will lift, and the city will become a beautiful place once again.

State Police are at the Longfellow Bridge right now, checking out a "suspicious package," Boston Police tweet. Presumably, it is not made of Lite Brites.

But that's what somebody did early this morning - and after he was fished out of the Charles, he was taken away in the custody of the State Police, Boston_Fireman tweets.

Channel 5 reports the two alleged yutzes charged with selling 91,000 pounds of ornamental scrollwork from the Longfellow Bridge as scrap last year are expected to plead guilty.

According to the Middlesesex County District Attorney's office, Richard Stewart of Saugus and Joseph Falzone of Nashua, NH are scheduled for trial on Aug. 11

The two are, of course, charged with selling almost 100,000 pounds of decorative trim for scrap last year - using a state-owned dump truck to haul the metal from the Stoneham yard where it had been stored while the state repaired the bridge - to a scrap-metal yard in Everett.

More from the Middlesex County DA's office.

According to a press release that I received from the DCR yesterday, the upstream (south) sidewalk of the Longfellow Bridge reopened yesterday.

Here's the full text of the press release:

Jonathan captures the Longfellow in a moody moment.

Used under this Creative Commons license.

All lanes now open, Channel 4 reports.

Cool photo of the sun going down over the Longfellow Bridge and a flock of geese.

RDA shows what you can see if you're on the Longfellow Bridge at just the right time.