Project 365/56

We've taken advantage of an unusually mild winter in Maine this year to do some letterboxing. Our most recent find was wedged under a metal clip sticking out from a cement post, and the metal clip had cracked the box's lid. The plastic box was frozen and it crumbled when we tried to force it out from under the clip, which revealed a large block of green ice. I've seen some unusual things in letterboxes, but this was a first.

There was a green ink pad inside the box, and apparently water trickled in through the crack in the box lid, mixed with the green ink, and froze into a lovely tinted ice sculpture. We put the whole mess (sans ice sculpture) in a grocery sack and brought it home to do the necessary repair work.



Come to find out, a hitchhiker in the box was the source of the green ink, and the primary box was unscathed. It took almost a week for all the pages of the hitchhiker's logbook to dry out enough to be handled, but finally today we were able to look through its green pages, dyed by the ink pad no doubt, and we were tickled to find out it's been in circulation since 2006. I hope the owner is as pleased it's still around as we are. Albiet, missing a green ink pad now. :)