Detour through Waltham

[urbpan]

On my way home last Friday, I decided to follow the Charles River instead of going by main roads. The city of Waltham has done a nice job with their part of the Charles River Reservation. It's not a fast way to get home, but it's very beautiful. Areas that were once industrial mills and factories have been turned into a pleasant walkway.







There were four black-crowned night-herons fishing on the Moody Street dam.







Nice to see a community put some money into an attractive footbridge. (A suspension bridge, of all things, named the "Blue Heron Bridge.")



By the time I was in Brighton, the sun was setting.

Comments

[crunchywater.livejournal.com]

Veru lovely...the last one makes me so happy.

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

This is a mushroom-type freak from my friends journal. I am curious as to what it is. any insight?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/_amyface/221519.html?#cutid1

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Your friend seems to have found a giant puffball Calvatia gigantea if I'm not mistaken. If they had cut it a few days earlier, it would have been white inside (and edible--an interesting addition to Thanksgiving?), but it had already begun to sporulate. The white turns yellow, and then brown, and then turns into billions and billions of spores. They should watch that spot on the lawn in the future--if not this mushroom season, maybe next fall.

I'm jealous! I've never seen that one in person.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the joy of living in a place with alternate routes. Great pictures.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

That 2nd picture is just so great. :)

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much.

They apparently have a bunch of them in the backyard, as well as thier neighbours.