971. Pink Backyard Butterflies (7) - limited time
planted for Christmas and Boxing Day for friends in our backyard

We had already pulled these lovely pink butterfly snowflakes (on loan from connecticut croaker) from their “butterfly garden” behind the Cross Mills library in Charlestown, RI when we found out that some of our nearest letterboxing neighbors hadn’t yet gotten them. When asked why, they said they couldn’t get the clues because our letterboxing site was still down. Turns out they had only been checking LbNA, and had entirely missed our email message to them that we had started listing some of our more recent clues directly on AQ to avoid that down-site problem!

Well, what to do? We were heading south with some of these snowflakes right after Christmas, so pretty much all we had time for was replanting them for our friends for one day only in our backyard! Normally we would prefer not to do something so contrary to the original spirit of letterboxing as set down by our American “founding fathers”, who had promoted a healthy style of letterboxing that would have unrestricted public access, free and open to all for more than just a few days (or-gasp-hours!), so people could go and have nice active individualized letterboxing adventures out in nature at their own convenience. However, given the present circumstances (plus the fact that we had been really hoping to reach our own personal goal of F1000 by the end of 2019 and thought that wouldn’t be possible because we had been far too busy with other things for almost the entire month of December!), having the kind of “private backyard stamp party” apparently favored over traditional American letterboxing by some of the current generation of “numbers stampers and planters” would be the obvious “quick and easy fix” for us “old-school boxers” to do in this case, too! (shame, shame on us for once again going down that “slippery stamping slope”, but hopefully it’s just a temporary “mirroring of these factional, narcissistic times we live in”, and we’ll get back to true traditional letterboxing soon, right?;-)

Anyway, to find these “quick and easy” pink butterfly snowflakes, simply go to the south side of our property and look around eye level in the very full skirts of the biggest tallest evergreen clusters near the small white wood shed.

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