Small slideshow of the MIT Pierce boathouse.

Riverside lost a great oarsman and the world lost a greater man last week. I still don't really believe it. Jim was one of the fittest people I've ever met, in a sport full of ridiculously fit people. I fully expected to see him in the Grand Veteran Singles at the age of 80, and still look like he was 40. I expected him to rope his girls into rowing, and then see him beaming at their races. Never would I have ever thought that he would be gone at 54. What I will always remember is not his speed. It will be how humble and gracious of a man he was. He never bragged about how good he was. When he joined RBC, he never even mentioned that he had finished 2nd in his event at Head of the Charles the year before. Or that he thought he had a good chance of winning two weeks after he joined. (He did). You never really heard him talk about himself, at all. He'd show up, more often than not kick everyone's ass, thank whoever organized the workout, chat for a few minutes, and then rush home to his family. Rowing was just something he did when he could, but just a part of who he was. We actually got to train with Jim quite a bit this past year, and I am really glad we did get to get to know him a little bit better. I was really looking forward to seeing him on the water this year.

This is a gallery of Jim's time at Riverside, the first photo was taken when he was still at GMS in 2009, and the last photo is his last race for Riverside, in the mixed eight in 2018. Fittingly, both were taken at the Head of the Charles, which he excelled at.

Link to the gallery behind the slideshow is here, just in case you wanted to scroll at your own .

More ice than any of us would like, but gorgeous nonetheless.

Used the coffee as bait. The bear and the flowers sat in the kitchen all night. Valentine's Day success!

The Pru, 1 Dalton and the Hancock casting long shadows over the tundra.

Sunset views from Audible headquarters in Newark

CBC on the edge of being ice free

Just some RBC alumni before they were Olympians. Spinning the wheel. Feeling the flow. (Esther Lofgren, Gold, 2012 Women's Eight, Meg Musnicki, Gold, 2012 and 2016 Women's Eight, Natalie Dell Bronze, 2012 Women's Quad, and the one and only Das Schmett, Lauren Schmetterling, Gold, 2016 Women's Eight).

Throw back to Hash's silver medal at the 2012 CRASH-Bs, with an immensely overqualified coxswain.

Panning along with Radcliffe in the November rain last fall.

Beantown on the way home.

Views on the way out from Seattle.

Bald Eagle driveby.

All in all, Multnomah Falls survived the Columbia Gorge fire in pretty good shape.

Garret and Carrey reaction were independent of Rowan's hand gestures. Honest.

Alaska Air flight catching the last few rays on the way to the West Coast.

Ice + rain make for pretty epic reflections

One more from the Eclipse, composite of pre-eclipse to the peak of the eclipse at midnight.. As you can see from the first photo, cloud coverage was a bit of an issue at first, but thankfully disappeared in time for the main event.

The Lunar Eclipse was cool. Very cool. Like 7F cool.

Zooming out a bit to see all the stars.

Sun setting on the basin (and any hopes of rowing outdoors in the near future).

Helen in the basin, in what appears to be daylight. Weird. From the April 2017, archives.