658.     Rainy Day Egg Hunt at "Mystery Falls" (4)
Hunting for eggs near an "equal-sided quadrilateral where rain is made" in eastern CT, but without having to get wet!

Caution: these tiny stamps are glued on the backs of small stones ("traveling' lights") that are hidden in a place requiring extreme discretion in retrieving and replacing, as well as brown, pink, blue and green ink pens for coloring them. (No boxes, no logbooks and no blackened eggs, please!) Limited time - only available through April Easter Egg Hunting Season, after which they hopefully go back to Basket Swamp in RI, where they belong!

Looking for an interesting place to go walking on a rainy day without getting wet, maybe catching a good meal and a few waterfalls while you're at it? Just find the closest venue from our home in RI to over the border into CT that has indoor waterfalls and ties to the heartland of an early basket weaving culture! We placed our little brown basket at the top of the southernmost waterfall inside this establishment, adjacent to the huge east-facing window that looks out over a hill of silica that a couple of hundred years ago had some signal lanterns on it and a decade or so ago had one of our early spring gatherings! Read the writing on the north wall, then turn around and bend over the waterfall between a bench to your right and a trash can to your left. Reach under the right side of the reddish rectangular rock in front of your feet for the " brown basket" on the bottom of a 2" round-shaped flat gray stone!

Now head to the bottom of the waterfall and stand on the "selfie" spot looking up at the falls. Just slightly right and about 1 foot up on the gray ledge rests a tiny pink egg on the back of a 1" stone, from which you can stamp an image in the middle of your basket.

Next head over to another more northerly waterfall with gigantic fish hovering over it and a few herons. (Perhaps you will go through the theater district to get there, and see a sign showing that Sinatra sang here in November of 1993. On the day he performed here, however, we were surprised to not find his photo in the entertainment section of the local newspaper, but a picture of me teaching international folk dancing at a nearby school instead!;-) Once you are standing near the escalator going down toward buses, simply reach discreetly into a shallow crack in the cement wall about 3 feet left from the escalator and 1 foot down from the top of the wall - or about 3 feet up - for a small gray stone with the blue egg on back!

Finally, find the waterfall that you can walk behind and stand there behind it with the water rushing down and a green metal railing in front of you. The right side of the middle railing has a little green egg stone tucked next to it! Hope you have fun walking around this interesting place, and maybe even get in some shopping, too!

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