State Police report recovering the body of an 80-year-old Newton man from the Charles River just east of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge Tuesday morning. Read more.

Mary Ellen videoed a muskrat enjoying a hearty breakfast of the choicest roots at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning: Read more.

The Swellesley Report details how just another Friday night in Wellesley, Needham and Dover turned exciting when police blew up a live mortar some guy doing some magnet fishing found in the Charles River where the three towns meet - after they sent out alerts to residents to not get alarmed when they heard something exploding down by the river.

Tony Ursillo watched the sun go down over the Common and the Charles River this evening.

Further upstream, in the ever aptly named Watertown, Pat Miguel Tomaino watched a nice sunset over the Charles as well: Read more.

Yesterday afternoon, just before the deluge that gave us That Rainbow, the Long Ditch that connects two loops of the Charles at the Dedham/Needham line (dug by the busy-beaver colonial settlers who also gave us the Mother Brook), had overflowed its banks and was flooding the nearby marshes of Cutler Park. As it was designed to do. 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

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.

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.

Watertown News reports on the proposed boat service.

The tahget mahket: Read more.

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.