The Charles River provides a surprisingly great variety of waterscape backdrops to the urban fabric of palates of greater Boston. The classic view of the Charles Basin includes the Hatch Shell and the Boston skyline. Yet a short 10-mile bike ride along the riverbank pathway system rewards you with a variety of vistas.
Below: marshes line the north bank in this view from the Brighton section of Boston.
Below: marshes line the north bank in this view from the Brighton section of Boston.
Above: a willow tree on the Esplanade near Back Bay is silhouetted by a Marsh sunset.
Below: a month later, a woman and child relax under a different willow tree on the south bank in Watertown.
Above: One of my favorites is a view into the sunset at Charles Station on the Longfellow Bridge. Taken only a few hundred yards from the Hatch Shell, this view is something you will never see on a post card. I just love the warm, yellow backlighting of the setting sun (eclipsed by the light pole).
Below: The falls at Watertown, framed by the wonderful spring palate of leafing trees on a warm Saturday in April.
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