Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[drevil]

EDIT 3/23/21 – FINAL RESULTS POST: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=210265#post210265
EDIT 3/17/21 – FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

I love taking photos, and having a goal usually ups the fun factor, so I’m doing a daily photo scavenger hunt.

Every night, I’ll post something you have to take a picture of the next day (along with the date). I’ll try my best to post before midnight.

It might be an object (a stop sign), a theme (something blue), specific (e.g., a bike laying on the ground), vague (e.g., confusion), a mish-mash of those, or none of those.

Rules:

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’21
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. It has to be posted on the day for which it was requested, i.e., 12:01 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST for the day it was requested. Sorry, I won’t count ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge
4. The reason I say “for the day it is requested” is because I might do requests a few days ahead of time, but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. It has to be posted here on the forum in this thread
6. There should be text either in the title or in the post with the date and the found object/theme. Another option is to “Reply With Quote” the post with the request, i.e., simply click that button on the bottom right of my request so it is quoted above your picture
7. Description, short backstory or location are optional (but nice). That said, if your pic is abstract or not obviously relatable to my request, please explain (e.g., I ask for “happiness”, and you post a pic of a tennis ball you found on a ride, please explain how that tennis ball = happiness)
8. It has to be a picture you took, so if you’re in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day
10. It has to be a picture, not a video
11. Let’s stick to things you find out there during your ride, and not things that you bring or make yourself (unless otherwise specified). Example 1: if I say find “2021”, don’t scratch it into dirt. Example 2: if I say find a flower, don’t bring a flower with you on your ride and take a pic of that. This kinda takes the fun out of looking for things, which is the whole point. (Rule added on 1/2/21)
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo. (Rule amended on 1/4/21)
13. Found item needs to be clear and discernible (or legible if text) in the picture. If you are using Tapatalk and are having trouble posting pics that are large enough, let us know and I/we can try to help you with it. (Rule added on 1/3/21)
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that I know anything about such things

Photoshop? by bikecentric, on Flickr

Scoring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/edit?usp=sharing

1. If you follow all the rules above, it’s 1 point/picture. I’ll like your pic if I have added the point to the tally sheet.
2. If I feel like you haven’t met all the rules, I’ll give you .25 points for the effort (Added on 1/11/21)
3. I’ll keep a tally with your forum name. I may reach out to you via the forum’s messaging, or ask you to reach out to me in a post in this thread.
4. EDIT ON 3/17/21: THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN ANYMORE -> At the end of FS, every like in each of your pic posts = +1 point. I’ll add these up at the end
   So for example, your pic has met all the conditions at the top, and has 3 likes. That will add 4 points (1 for the pic +3 for the likes) to your pot.

Notes:

1. Prizes TBD
2. Contest starts 1/1/21 and goes until the last day of FS ’21
3. Some of these will be hard. Fret not, some will be easy, so skip those days that are too difficult
4. Don’t ever ever ever ever do anything that can put you in danger or will result in hurting yourself. I promise I won’t ask for any pics of you riding on the Beltway
5. I might post pics, but mine don’t count in the contest

EDIT 3/17/21 -SEE FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

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[CaseyKane50]

3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)

Minnie Howard, Alexandria Resident, 1868 – 1950

From the Minnie Howard School webpage https://www.acps.k12.va.us/Page/468

Imagine a mother of seven children seeing the danger of the newly invented automobile and attempting to curb youth and children’s street activities! She not only recognized this newfangled dilemma, but rose to the challenge and created the forerunner to our current Alexandria City Recreation Department. Mrs. Howard successfully introduced the supervised playground concept to our city; created Alexandria’s school lunch program; and founded the Alexandria Parent Teachers Association in 1912. Quite a feat for a woman of that time!

[AlanA]

@Steve O 209389 wrote:

3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)

Joan of Arc

Helped win a long, long war
Canonized in 1920

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How about posting a picture that doesn’t fill up 3 of my screens!

[Indiana]

3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)

This Brookland school was taken over by the charter bearing the name of another notable woman already mentioned in the thread, Mary McLeod Bethune. Before that it was called Lucy Slowe school, named after Lucy Diggs Slowe (1883 or 1885 depending on the source – 1937), African American scholar, educator, and athlete. Slowe was the principal of the first junior high in DC for black students, a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Dean of Women at Howard University, as well as the winner of the first women’s national singles championship of the American Tennis Association. She advocated for better treatment of blacks and women. The house a couple blocks away that she shared with fellow educator and possible lover, Mary Burrill, was designated a historic landmark last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/03/26/this-pioneering-howard-dean-lived-with-another-woman-s-were-they-lovers/
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Last month CBS sports honored Lucy Slowe with a little vignette celebrating her many first! https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/lucy-diggs-slowe-honored-with-animated-vignette-by-cbs-sports-during-black-history-month/

The NY Times included her in their “overlooked” series of obituaries that should have been written at the time of death but were not. From it I learned that not only was a school and a Howard U hall named after her, but so was a bison at the National zoo (Howard’s mascot) and a giant boring machine for the First Street Tunnel Project sewer system upgrading: “’Lucy’ — strong, persistent, powerful and with its own Twitter account — moved tons of earth beneath the streets of Washington.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/obituaries/lucy-diggs-slowe-overlooked.html

[drevil]

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” Subanagram (5 letters or more)

On March 9, 1454, the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence. From LOC.gov:
America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent. A map created in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller was the first to depict this new continent with the name “America,” a Latinized version of “Amerigo.”

On your ride, find a word (5 letters or more) derived just from the letters of his name, snap a pic, and post it here on the forum.

Happy hunting!

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[mootsfy]

3/8/21 Notable Woman with her achievement.

Neval Hollen Thomas (January 6, 1874 – April 13, 1930) was a civil rights activist, high school teacher, and president of the Washington, D.C. local NAACP branch from 1925 to 1930.

[cvcalhoun]

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” anagram (5 letters or more)
Architectural Ceramics. Women owned and locally owned tile business.

[rumipumi]

3/9 amerigo vespucci anagram: ice cream

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[komorebi]

@drevil 209407 wrote:

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” Subanagram (5 letters or more)

3/9/2021 — “Amerigo Vespucci” subanagram. My preferred anagram generator thinks that “icecream” (no space) is a word, so I present Nicecream:

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[CBGanimal]

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” subanagram in Spanish I chose Europea and went to the University to grab my pic!

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[Catedrew]

@drevil 209407 wrote:

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” Subanagram (5 letters or more)

3/9/21 – Amerigo Vespucci subanagram: Pierogi

One of my favorite restaurants – Oby-Lee’s has both crepes AND pierogies. I was trying to see if the one menu sheet had BOTH of them on there but alas, the crepes were on one menu, and the pierogies were on another menu, so I went with the pierogies. Luckily, all variants spellings of pierogies were part of the sub-anagram. This place is in Clarendon in Arlington, and mostly has crepes, but added pierogies as a regular menu item a while back, and now has a full Polish menu on certain evenings.

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[Steve O]

@AlanA 209395 wrote:

How about posting a picture that doesn’t fill up 3 of my screens!

She was a bigger than life figure

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[Steve O]

3/9 amerigo vespucci anagram
VOICES

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[LeftyLaura]

3/9 amerigo vespucci anagram -Service

Got nothing much more than this.

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[DCAKen]

3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci”

Fortunately, this “Escape” was parked, so I didn’t have to get a picture while riding

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[DCAKen]

@AlanA 209395 wrote:

How about posting a picture that doesn’t fill up 3 of my screens!

It could have been worse. It could have been a selfie.

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