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Did a couple geocaches in the last week. On Sunday, in between thunder storms, Henry and I did one at the Reading Town Forest called "Dead Marshes". It is named after a passage in the J.R.R. Tolkien books where Frodo and Sam are walking through the marsh with the dead below the surface of the waters.

This one was a bit more cheery than that, but it was definitely marshy. Check out the photos on Flickr in the August set.

Henry picked out a necklace with a gnome figurine on it, holding a milky stone.

After work on Monday I went to Cat Rock Hill in Weston. It is on the way home and I have passed by the area many time but never knew that there was a conservation area here. No signs, no hints. Even the road leading in looks just like any other residential side street.

There are 4 geocaches at Cat Rock. Three of them are named in honor of dogs; the fourth is a multi-part cache that takes you past the other 3.

I was able to get through 2 out of the 3 dog caches and the 1st stage of the multi-part cache. It included a hike to the top of Cat Rock, of course. I hope to come back soon to finish it and get some more photos.

These photos were taken with my new Vivitar mini digital camera, a $10 purchase at Walgreens. You are seeing the "high" resolution photos - no reducing required to resize them to fit on a web page.