THE MOON & STARS/CHICKS IN DISQUISE

A perfect Sunday.  It's Dad's birthday and I had come home from Geneva.  There was some pending nasty rain clouds hanging over our heads while we went hunting, but it never rained until we got home and started to cook dinner.

We love the Stone Quarry Art Park, but today we stayed on the outside of it to find these boxes.

There were suppose to be a total of 4 boxes, but silly me forgot to cut and paste the second clue to The Moon & Stars clue, and we believe the first box in the the Chicks in Disquise is missing in action - so we walked away with two boxes!!!  Well, that gives us an excuse to go back out another nice summer day!

The first box we came to was close to the road OUT of the Stone Park.

Then up the hill and thru the field we went.  The air was cooler and dryer than the days earlier in the week so it was quite pleasant except for the darn horse flies!  They sure are loud when the buz your head!

Into the woods for the next box we found.  Very cool and dark in there.   Here is a shot looking out from where we stopped to stamp in.

While Scott finished stamping in I went to the edge of the woods and peeked out to see if there was a view.
Look at this!

The lovely hills of Central NY.   What a pefect summer day!
Happy Birthday Dad!

MICHIGAN TRIP - JUNE 7-12, 2012

Heading home to visit my MIL for a few days. We made several stops along the way and relaxed doing some letterboxes. Several we tried were either missing in action or we struggled terrible with poorly written clues. I dislike general discriptions like: big rock, tall tree, bush on right..... you get the idea. So here are the boxes (4) we were able to get. FAMILY MYSTERY, IMLAY, MI After we got to our hotel the first night on the road we treated ourselves to this letterbox in the cool of the evening. After we go home here to NY I realized that I did not click a picture! It was a simple stamp, and a nice clear cut find. DURAND UNION STATION, DURAND, MI After a couple days at my MIL's house we needed to break from her and she wanted to lay down and take a naps. We headed straight out to do a couple letterboxes. We already have been to this train station several years ago for another stamp, but it is always a pleasure to come back to this quaint old style - STILL WORKING station. I would love to sit on this platform and watch the trains go by all day, but it was almost 91 degrees and it was not something to do that day anyway! They had a great disply of train memories and it was air conditioned! FREAKER'S CAP, BANCROFT, MI Another cute location in a quiet peaceful cemetery. Clues were just enough to make us think but not totally confuse us. Sat in the shade to log in because it was so hot! MICHIGAN STATE FRUIT, LAPEER, MI We did not get to letterbox again until we were heading home. Just before the bridge to Canada we stopped at the last American rest stop to grap this stamp. The box was located in the hollow of a tree and unfortunately it was totally under water and the log book was completely soaked and honestly, ruined. The stamp was great AND there was a hitchhiker in there that was nice and dry. We brought that home with us to send on it's way here in NY. That is always exciting!

JREL WAS HERE - DEWITT, NY

It was Memorial Day - it was HOT and I wanted to stop on Erie Blvd. to get more sock yarn. We stopped at AC Moore, shot over to the location of this letterbox (don't want to give it away as the clue makes you solve the mystery) - successful! Then off to the mall to watch The Avengers (not in 3D)in cool air conditioning. Great letterbox/stamp. Great movie! Great weekend with family.

FINGER LAKES WINE TOUR & CYMRU

On a visit to my Mom's house in Geneva, NY we went on down the farside of Seneca Lake and found this little gem of a letterbox in an old church cemetery. Scott and I love exploring cemeteries as I mentioned in prior posts. There were two stamps and they were hand carved and very nice. It was just a perfect Saturday afternoon. The scenery was just stunning and it made my heart proud to be able to say that I am from the Finger Lakes region.

The next day after church we took a ride over the hill to Nelson and did another old church with a sweet old cemetery. This is the Welch church in Nelson, NY. It only has summer services as they do not heat the building during the winter months. Scott and I have wanted to go there, but never did. Some of the grave stones were in Welch.

Another beautiful day! The sky is perfect and the air was so sweet smelling.

SWEET VIDALIA ONION AND GREEN ZUCCHINI SQUASH

Could us mothers have asked for a nicer day? I really could have letterboxed in the woods all day long, but ...... well, I had other things I wanted/needed to do. These boxes (the two we did and we "left" two there to do another time) are in a little known Madison County historical park site called Nichols Pond. The planter of the boxes gives a lot of nice history about the area in their clue. These signs should give you a quick insight to how historic the area is:

Nichols Pond is located among the wonderful windmills of Fenner Wind Farm and you can see one through the trees in this photo, which is right where one box is hiding.

When the planter talks about the grain pits the Indians created - you can actually still see them.

Checking out all the sunshine and green??????? My fave colors!

OXBOW ROAD FALLS PARK

Scott and I have lived 5 miles from this park and have only been here once. When our children were toddlers. Wow, it is so very nice now with well groomed trails and just breath-taking views!

Everything has greened out nicely and the walk down the trail was just filled with new growth and my favorite color - green!

I happened to look UP and got this view - wow, my second favorite color!

The whole time we are walking the path there was this lovely smell. I traced it to these little flowers. The honey bees loved their smell too!

Walked along quietly running little streams, dabbled with sunlight.

The lboxes were hidden near the bridges we crossed. And all on the forest floor bed were newly "hatched" white trilliums.

Perfect day for letterboxing!

CANAL - BABY BARRUS

Another LB near the Erie Canal. We were once again out of time at the very end of a busy day and we needed a quick find. This was near the Erie Canal Boat landing site in Chittenango, NY. The walk was quick, it was busy on the path but we were able to get a break. The stamp was a tiny store bought stamp - almost like a flea but not quite. I took a few photos of the surrounding buildings of interest.

This is an old factory of some kind that has long been left to crumble and look totally in need of being tore down. Some of its exterior show the construction type from the era that it was built.

This building use to host field trips and canal open house events. They have since built a nicer facility and I am not sure what they use it for now.

This is a display of a dissected canal boat from different levels and angles. I have ridden on an actual restored canal boat and it was very cool. Those must have been some exciting days!