'Tis A Puzzle

 

Early morning over Meriden.

Visit #1548, Saturday 23 August 25, 6:20-8:45AM, 5.4 miles, 6.3 lbs. of litter.

Today I would be walking the road up to Castle Craig to remove some graffiti I found last week on a transformer near the parking lot.

The choppy water was caused by a strong but cool late summer breeze. Ahh! You can just make out the reservoir's "alligator" which was less visible last week indicating either evaporation or water use.

Leaves are starting to fall from the trees. Get ready for autumn!

This is the second painted piece of gravel I've removed in the past two weeks. Someone has a lot of spare time on their hands - uh that is, besides me...

Reaching Castle Craig I laid out my kit to remove the graffiti.

As I reported last week, there were yellow jackets flying around the transformer which is why I equipped myself with bug sprays.

I first tried the Goo Gone because I thought it would work well on what I believe is grease pencil of some sort.

Either it wasn't working fast or wasn't working at all. I will however keep it in my backpack for another chance to redeem itself. With the bees around I wasn't going to exercise patience with the Goo Gone. I moved on to the Superman of graffiti removers.

It will look better once the lacquer thinner evaporates.

Back at the park, while policing up the dirt parking lot at the northwest corner of Mirror Lake, I found someone had dumped a number of boards into the brush.

I gathered them up and placed them in a more conspicuous spot to be found by the parks employees. I took my trash bag with me, though.

Dumping, vandalism, litter, graffiti; as my coworker says, "'Tis a puzzle."