426. Last of Our Favorite Ornaments Series: the Rooster!
A quick look at our new Charlestown dog park between two fenced-in areas in Ninigret Park where hopefully this little rooster will feel safe from the dogs for a little while!

CHECKED - OK 2 August 2011

When we first planted our Favorite Ornament series of about a dozen boxes back in 2002, it was one of the biggest series in the country at that time! Indeed, we remember a certain amount of grumbling - in that age of mostly single boxes - that planting so many boxes on a hike of only a couple of miles was "trivializing" or "commoditizing" letterboxing!

Well, times have certainly changed! Now it almost seems that series of boxes are the norm, there have been literally dozens of holiday box series since that time, and no one bats an eyelid if they are practically on top of each other! In fact, some people nowadays even consider just picking bunches of boxes off a tree to be "letterboxing", which we, of course, do not, since we still adhere to the basic concept of "a search utilizing clues" (not just "scavenging"!) as our definition for "American-style letterboxing". However, as they say, it's all in good fun, so we were just getting ready to retire our antiquated ornament series, when what should we do but find another ornament at Yankee Candle in Deerfield, MA for which we just had to make one last ornament box - a rooster!

Note: A small building is being constructed in the parking lot. The rocks are behind it; the box area remains undisturbed.

So, to find this little rooster crowing, or cowering, between the two fenced-in dog areas of Ninigret Park between the Nature Center and the Senior Center, simply hop over the middle of the line of rocks (or go around them) at the south end of that parking lot. Then take about two dozen more steps south and look for rooster SPOR under the south side of a multi-bush about a dozen steps north of the bike path. Kukuriku - Happy Holidays!

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