1103. Grass Pond #1

As so often seems to happen when other people later add boxes to an area where we have planted previously, ours seem to be the boxes that go missing. Generally, if they contain any of our stamps, that's not much of a loss, since we have never gone in much for carving ourselves. However, we do still feel sad to lose boxes containing stamps carved by others or the occasional special stamp we might have carved, like "Birthday Blossoms" for Laurette's birthday many years ago. No chance we could ever re-carve anything like that now, though, so we just left a "sad sack stamp" near where the original Grass Pond box of ours from 2002 had been. (The dots at the top of this stamp are supposed to represent blue-eyed grass, but no one would probably ever guess that in any number of years!;-)

Anyway, to find the current stamp, which is just a "travelin' light" glued on the back of a small stone, simply get yourself to the "top of the kite" of the Grass Pond trail that starts from the east end of Wilbur Hill Road in Richmond, RI (a bit over half a mile south on route 112 from its junction with route 138 east of exit 3 off I-95.) There at the slight dip before the trail makes a sharp turn to start looping back is an old snag with a double yellow blaze in front of a stone wall. About a foot right of that snag, beneath the pointy part of a low mossy ledge that is part of the stone wall, is where we left a 1-2" somewhat triangular darkish gray stone under a flat 5"x7" somewhat triangular rock flush to the ground. Please replace it the same way before continuing around the "kite", down the "string" and right at the stone-decorated boulder back to your car!

1104. Grass Pond #2

We happened to have this stamp "leftover" when carving something to replace our original "Grass Pond" letterbox from 2002, and were going back to retrieve the eight lovely "Butterfly Snowflake" stamps from connecticut croaker that we had transplanted here at Grass Pond for the spring of 2020 anyway, so we figured we might as well plant this one while we were at it, too! So, from the stone-encrusted boulder where the yellow blaze trail turns north from the grassy extension of Wilbur Hill Road, take about 16 steps back west on that grassy lane and then 22 steps on the trail south to the south end of a rock, then look behind the west side of a birch for a small roundish stamp-backed stone under a slightly larger stone. (If you can, take some time to explore the area and maybe find the pond while you're here as well!:-)

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