651. Just a Little Drop of Purple Rain
Nice little walk to small waterfall in "Florida hill country"

Certainly wouldn't want anyone to go out of the way just for this little rather unexpectedly planted "traveling light"*, but if you happen to find yourself heading out for some hiking or camping in the Florida State Park reminiscent of a similarly rare pine that only grows in a small area near La Jolla, CA, you might want to check out this walk, too. It's called the "Weeping Ridge Trail" and the trail head can be found just outside the campground entrance off the west side of the main entrance road before reaching a historic house and some old Civil War battlements above the river. Another trailhead is inside the campground itself, just left of the restrooms. Take either blue blazed trail to the junction, then continue down, up and down to sit on a bench near the 3-sided fence overlooking the "Weepy Seep". If you walk about 22 steps from the bench northerly along and past the west side of the fence, then curving west a bit to the north side of the second tree, you may be able to find a small purple box with a drop of rain in it there under a 1.5 inch grey somewhat raindrop- shaped stone.

*"Travelin' lights" are what we call the little stones with stamps glued on back that we have been planting for the last few years after we got tired of planting over 500 traditional boxes and having so many of them "go missing". We hope that these little stones are more likely to blend in with the environment and less likely to get picked up and thrown away as trash (although, of course, they may still get moved around by natural or unnatural processes, like raking, mowing, etc.), so just remember that for our "traveling' lights", you're looking for a tiny stone and not an actual box!

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