What to do when you are not letterboxing LbNA #56502 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | FelixPezGirl  |
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| Plant date: | Nov 20, 2010 |
| Location: | Tubb's Meadow Preserve |
| City: | Pembroke |
| County: | Plymouth |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 5 |
| Found by: | Sagacorn (5) |
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| Last found: | Jun 1, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFFFar |
| Last edited: | Nov 20, 2010 |
Webster's defines "hobby" as a specialized pursuit that is outside one's regular occupation and that one finds particularly interesting and enjoys doing, usually in a non-professional way as a source of leisure-time relaxation. Let's go to Tubb's Meadow Preserve to find a few hobby letterboxes. Bring pink & blue markers plus your regular ink pad for best effects.
Photography: In the late 1830's, in France, Joseph Nicephore Niepce used a portable camera obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen to light. This was the first recorded image that did not fade quickly. Even the most basic point and shoot camera now takes higher quality images that Niepce's pewter plate. Bring your camera for some beautiful photos here.
Start in the parking area on Monroe Street, Pembroke, MA Step over a telephone pole and continue down the path to the right. At the first fork go right. See the bog on your left? Keep walking along the bog to the next fork. Go right on a dirt road. Shortly on the right you will see a tree area with 16 tree stems growing out of one clump. Photography is waiting for you here. Step away from the site to stamp in.
Postage stamp collecting: Do you know who was on the first postage stamp made in Britain in 1840? You will find the answer on the cover of the final box!!!! Have you seen the beautiful Holiday Evergreen stamps of ponderosa pine, eastern red cedar, blue spruce and balsam fir? One is on the letterbox cover. Maybe you will see some of these trees as you look for this box.
Continue down the path past a broken down pump house. Keep left at the junction with two white trail markers on the post. Shortly you will see another junction with trail markers on another post. Go straight thru the clearing on the trail. After you cross the clearing you will see a three trunked oak on your right. Behind is a two trucked oak where Box 2 awaits you. Re-hide carefully.
Paper Crafts: There are so many paper craft hobbies. Letterboxers often use paper craft techniques on their logbooks. Do you know what Quilling is? Some say it began in 105 AD in China and was a practiced art in ancient Egypt. We can quill today by curling thin strips of paper on a small slotted tool then gluing, pinching and shaping. I bet you will see quilling on a logbook soon. Continue on the path. As you come to a clearing keep left. At the fork you will see a bench straight ahead. Stop and admire the view. Had enough rest? With your back to the bench, walk 50 steps away from the bog, to some big rocks. Box 3 is waiting for you behind the 5th rock and a pine tree. You can stamp in at the bench if no one is there.
Quilting: Quilting has a long and documented history but began with the idea of piecing together bits of expensive fabric as a way of saving money and putting to good use what would otherwise be wasted. Today we call this recycling. Quilting has turned into a beautiful art form often finding inspiration from colors and patterns in nature.
Continue on past the bench. Before the next junction take a small path to your left toward the bog. Continue straight. See another bench? Go to it. Sit and relax. See the path in back of the bench going up into the woods? Follow it just around the cut logs blocking the path. With the two big stones on your right, look to the left and walk for 38 steps, until you see a rather dead, knarly tree on the right. (oops..tree is now on the ground and box nestled a few feet from the stump end. Here lies Box 4.
Use your pink and blue marker for best effect. Cover carefully please.
Retrace you steps back to the bench.
Knitting: The history of knitting is a mystery, guessed at from fragments kept in museums but it seems that knitting developed from a craft called nalbinding. In the past, many sweaters that didn't fit would be unraveled and re-knit. Yarn wasn't discarded until it was worn out. If it is cold weather , are you wearing a knitted sweater, scarf, hat, mittens or socks? To find Knitting (box 5) and the LOG BOOK ..
Continue past the bench and keep right. Bog will be on your left. Turn left at the end of the bog and you will see another bench to stamp in on. Continue down this path for 25 steps. Look to your right for a stand of birches, slightly off the trail with 8 plus trunks growing up. In back you will find the final box. Please be stealthy , reseal the logbook and hide the box well. Hope you enjoyed "What to do when you are not letterboxing". Did you find the answer to the question from box 2?
Continue on the path and take a sharp hairpin turn back to the parking lot.
Photography: In the late 1830's, in France, Joseph Nicephore Niepce used a portable camera obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen to light. This was the first recorded image that did not fade quickly. Even the most basic point and shoot camera now takes higher quality images that Niepce's pewter plate. Bring your camera for some beautiful photos here.
Start in the parking area on Monroe Street, Pembroke, MA Step over a telephone pole and continue down the path to the right. At the first fork go right. See the bog on your left? Keep walking along the bog to the next fork. Go right on a dirt road. Shortly on the right you will see a tree area with 16 tree stems growing out of one clump. Photography is waiting for you here. Step away from the site to stamp in.
Postage stamp collecting: Do you know who was on the first postage stamp made in Britain in 1840? You will find the answer on the cover of the final box!!!! Have you seen the beautiful Holiday Evergreen stamps of ponderosa pine, eastern red cedar, blue spruce and balsam fir? One is on the letterbox cover. Maybe you will see some of these trees as you look for this box.
Continue down the path past a broken down pump house. Keep left at the junction with two white trail markers on the post. Shortly you will see another junction with trail markers on another post. Go straight thru the clearing on the trail. After you cross the clearing you will see a three trunked oak on your right. Behind is a two trucked oak where Box 2 awaits you. Re-hide carefully.
Paper Crafts: There are so many paper craft hobbies. Letterboxers often use paper craft techniques on their logbooks. Do you know what Quilling is? Some say it began in 105 AD in China and was a practiced art in ancient Egypt. We can quill today by curling thin strips of paper on a small slotted tool then gluing, pinching and shaping. I bet you will see quilling on a logbook soon. Continue on the path. As you come to a clearing keep left. At the fork you will see a bench straight ahead. Stop and admire the view. Had enough rest? With your back to the bench, walk 50 steps away from the bog, to some big rocks. Box 3 is waiting for you behind the 5th rock and a pine tree. You can stamp in at the bench if no one is there.
Quilting: Quilting has a long and documented history but began with the idea of piecing together bits of expensive fabric as a way of saving money and putting to good use what would otherwise be wasted. Today we call this recycling. Quilting has turned into a beautiful art form often finding inspiration from colors and patterns in nature.
Continue on past the bench. Before the next junction take a small path to your left toward the bog. Continue straight. See another bench? Go to it. Sit and relax. See the path in back of the bench going up into the woods? Follow it just around the cut logs blocking the path. With the two big stones on your right, look to the left and walk for 38 steps, until you see a rather dead, knarly tree on the right. (oops..tree is now on the ground and box nestled a few feet from the stump end. Here lies Box 4.
Use your pink and blue marker for best effect. Cover carefully please.
Retrace you steps back to the bench.
Knitting: The history of knitting is a mystery, guessed at from fragments kept in museums but it seems that knitting developed from a craft called nalbinding. In the past, many sweaters that didn't fit would be unraveled and re-knit. Yarn wasn't discarded until it was worn out. If it is cold weather , are you wearing a knitted sweater, scarf, hat, mittens or socks? To find Knitting (box 5) and the LOG BOOK ..
Continue past the bench and keep right. Bog will be on your left. Turn left at the end of the bog and you will see another bench to stamp in on. Continue down this path for 25 steps. Look to your right for a stand of birches, slightly off the trail with 8 plus trunks growing up. In back you will find the final box. Please be stealthy , reseal the logbook and hide the box well. Hope you enjoyed "What to do when you are not letterboxing". Did you find the answer to the question from box 2?
Continue on the path and take a sharp hairpin turn back to the parking lot.