Blue Butterfly and I decided to take Friday afternoon off, drive to the D/FW area and find a few letterboxes. We started out by visiting the Dallas Arboretum, where BB's Flowers, Leaves, Birds & Trees is located. Even though I'd previewed the stamp before it was hidden, it was nice to be able to stamp in to this box. After leaving the arboretum, we went around White Rock Lake to find the one of Celtic Lions' Missing Keys. This search produced a pleasant hike and a great log book. This box has had many visitors and its great to see the personal stamps of other letterboxers. After stamping in here, we decided to help out the Lions again because they'd misplaced another key on another part of the lake. This location was a little more difficult to find, but we enlisted the help of the Dallas Park Services and a nice gentleman directed us to our destination. The boats, the sky, and the water were all beautiful to see and we did successfully find the other Missing Key.
Saturday morning, we rose early and headed to Kane Park in Arlington. We found Kantexan's Into the Woods and A-Bear's Pepper. Some rather large dogs who were not leashed happened upon us and jumped up on us, but the owners finally came around and called them off. This made us a little skiddish for a while, but we decided that nothing would scare us from our precious letterboxes! We searched and searched for Butterfly Hello, but we could not find it.
After finishing up with Kane Park, we decided to tackle Kantexan's Jazz Quartet Series. We started off in reverse order with the Piano. This was a nice park and a clean trail. We took note on the sign that all pets must be leashed and breathed a short sigh of relief. We found the Piano with ease, then headed south to find the Bass Guitar. The Bass Guitar was not difficult to find, but we did have a hard time opening the container. We finally got it open and were pleased to find our prize. So, we were off to the Drumset! We got to the park and found it difficult to locate this particular box. We searched the branches of two trees that fit the description in the clues. We could not find this box. Then, I got the idea that it may have fallen out of the tree and onto the ground, so I started searching under the leaves on the ground. EUREKA! I found the box. BB and I were so happy that we'd found the box....especially since we were so close to cutting our losses and going on. So...we open the box and there is a logbook, but no stamp. We were disappointed again. I searched the ground again to make sure the stamp wasn't there, but to no avail. So we stamped in and re-hid the box in the tree, and went off to find the Tenor Saxophone. BB and I found the Tenor Saxophone with little to no trouble and admired our new Jazz Trio.
Was our boxing day complete? No way! Next we went down to Cleburne State Park where we risked life and limb to pick up the Texas Tour Bus. This was also BB's 100th find...CONGRATULATIONS BLUE BUTTERFLY!!
We then drove through Joshua and picked up BB's Screechin' Owls. We also picked up a hitch hiker here. On our "way home", we stopped in Italy to pick up the Texas Passport Series-Italy stamp. By this time, Flopsy was getting anxious and wanted to join us in finding the box. So, we let him out, and as you can see in the picture, he was a great help in locating this box. Continuing back towards East Texas, we dropped in on the East Texas Arboretum (with only about a half hour to spare before the sun went down and the garden closed) and pick up the Texas Passport Series-Athens stamp. I hope to go back to this garden in the spring time when the flowers are blooming, as I'm sure it will be gorgeous.
That was our last stop of the evening. We finally made it back home at about 7:30 p.m. (after having started boxing at about 7:00 this morning). We are tired, but we are thrilled with our finds and our adventures for the past two days.
Merry Christmas and Happy Trails.
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