Spring in the the northwest...a VERY long season. Spring can stretch for 3 or 4 months easy with frequent trips back into winter. Many times, I have shivered at a late May softball game in the frigid rain "Welcome to January" my fellow fan mumbles. Maybe because summer is so short? Blink, look the wrong way and you might miss it!
This daffodil in my front yard. Yellow and HAPPENING! It's the first one struggling up. I admit to being a terrible gardener, just don't like getting down on the ground in the dirt. Which means not a lot gets done. But a beautiful daffodil, harbinger of spring.
Several people have asked about letterboxing (and also here). I, myself, have only known about it for a few days. It's kind of a treasure-hunt, people leave boxes in hidden publicly accessible places, a little book and a stamp is in the box. They publish clues, you find the boxes, stamp in their book, use the stamp in the box to mark your journal book, return the box. A wonderful time-wasting hobby. It's about 150 years old, started in England. So far, I have found two letterboxes near my home, one in Horizon View Park and one in Shoreline Park. Don't know if it would be cool to post pictures of the two boxes that I found. I can see the real fun is making your own letter box and hiding it and having people find it. Many thanks for neighbor Ann who supplied me with a stamp and pad to get started and also a few smaller stamps I can use to make letterboxes.
2 comments:
I'd never heard of Letterboxing. Very interesting. It reminds me of geocaching. Are you familiar with that?
I'm not familiar with it but I think it's similar. It has more to do with GPS positioning. And you leave something in the box and the finder exchanges it for something else. There might be more geocaching, I don't know. I think letterboxing is an older tradition. My husband described it as "
ham radio walking around"
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