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March 8, 2024 at 11:43 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133622
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ParticipantThanks @drevil
A very fortunate morning to be out early.
It was just my phone. I have a Samsung s23 Ultra
I was in front of the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington. Check my strava post for a few others that I’m also very pleased with.
https://strava.app.link/27gvSC6RNHb
March 8, 2024 at 7:01 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133620Aaron bikes
Participant3/8/24 EARLY
March 7, 2024 at 7:12 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133556Aaron bikes
Participant3/7/24 CLONE
🍌 Bananas are CLONEs! 🍌
[NSFW]
(Ha! I’ll post the real photo on the STRAVA page! Here’s a SFW blurred version)
This extreme genetic vulnerability is why the Panama Banana Wilt (Fusarium Wilt) is so devastating. There’s no treatment, and no genetic variation means no survivors. Containment is the only course of action.
This the why the banana my parents enjoyed as kids is not the banana we find in stores now (Cavendish), and in another decade, we will likely not see this one either.
March 6, 2024 at 4:44 pm in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133522Aaron bikes
Participant3/6/24 TEARY
Hard to see, but the image within the TEARY drop is of statues depicting the crucifixion. Taken outside St Agnes Catholic Church (this was the motivation for the tears. Cell phones cameras are certainly challenging to convince to focus on an image within a drop. But this looks awesome even if the subject matter within the drop is not forefront).
March 6, 2024 at 11:31 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133508Aaron bikes
Participant” Didn’t you get a little teary-eyed when Jack slipped…”
No. I didn’t /don’t. 😉
But it did make me laugh when someone put a Leo face on the statue (September 2022)
March 5, 2024 at 4:42 pm in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133442Aaron bikes
Participant3/5/24 (Super Tuesday)
I have a HUNCH the old guys will carry their tickets.
March 4, 2024 at 5:08 pm in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133366Aaron bikes
ParticipantMarch Forth! (3/4)
AND VOTE (tomorrow).
Super Tuesday will help decide whether we can keep the FLAME of Democracy alive, or instead fan the FLAMEs of insurrection and fascism.
Will the USA go down in FLAMEs? Stay tuned…
Photo is of my polling place. I’ll be there in the morning casting my vote!
(Note: Is this worth a point? What about my other shots on my ride today? I’d welcome opinions from the group. Several different shots are on my strava post. Lemme know (on that site) what you think is my best submission. I’m still flummoxed. https://strava.app.link/KRImUxjBHHb
March 3, 2024 at 10:59 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133278Aaron bikes
Participant2/3/24 STATE
March 2, 2024 at 4:13 pm in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133205Aaron bikes
Participant03/02/24 URBAN
The Masonic influence in the founding of this country is pretty well established. But there are some pretty big URBAN legends surrounding secret symbols and meanings. (Just read Dan Brown’s not-great book “The Lost Symbol” for about a hundred of them). One of the most enduring URBAN legends is that L’Enfant (a Mason) included Masonic symbols in the layout of DC. Specifically that there is a Pentagram that makes an arrow pointing to the White House (the fifth vertex), with the arrow beginning at the Masonic Temple up 16th street.
This photo shows the Masonic Temple at the start of the arrow, and my ride recreating this mystical Pentagram with my Garmin.
See my Strava ride for the clear map “proving” this URBAN legend. https://strava.app.link/dr9oy3McEHb
March 1, 2024 at 6:56 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133116Aaron bikes
Participant3/01/24 FORTY
February 29, 2024 at 11:03 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1133042Aaron bikes
Participant2/29/24 IMAGE
An IMAGE of the stars is projected onto the inside domed roof of the David M. Brown planetarium in Arlington.
The planetarium was renamed to honor Captain Brown, a 1974 Yorktown high school graduate and astronaut who perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry on the first day of February, 2003.
(I teach physics at Yorktown, but the planetarium is located on the campus of Washington Liberty high school, adjacent to I-66, in the center of Arlington county.)
The planetarium and encircling central office building (now classroom space) were built in 1969. The planetarium just received a major overhaul and is not only enjoyed by thousands of students, but is also open for many public events.
https://friendsoftheplanetarium.org/
https://www.apsva.us/planetarium/
February 28, 2024 at 9:44 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1132988Aaron bikes
Participant@DCAKen , I’ve been across that bridge many times, but had no idea it had a name, let alone such an ominous one!
Thanks!
February 28, 2024 at 7:57 am in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1132982Aaron bikes
Participant2/28/24 DEVIL
The Exorcist staircase in Georgetown
The girl in The Exorcist was posessed by the DEVIL. During the exorcism, the priest beats the girl and convinces the demon to posess him instead. The demon does, and the priest immediately jumps out the window and down this famous staircase.
February 27, 2024 at 4:37 pm in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1132923Aaron bikes
Participant2/27/24 SENSE
Below these diamonds on the trails are SENSE coils. They count bikes going past by sensing changes in a magnetic field induced by metal passing over.
General info about their use in Arlington: https://www.bikearlington.com/diamonds-are-a-girls-best-friend/
For the really nerdy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop
February 27, 2024 at 3:21 pm in reply to: 2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words #1132918Aaron bikes
ParticipantThanks @Kbikeva
I went a different route and I have a SENSE that my new idea will be a winner 😎
(Though I’m OFTEN wrong 😉 )
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