2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words
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3/18 – SPELT
I wandered around the ‘hood to take a pic of flour, but I spelt it wrong. (BADUM, TSSS) đ
Thank you Kelly and Serdar for your time, thought, and care you put into the Photo Scavenger Hunt again this year!
3/18/24 SPELT
Given that all the words on this sign are spelt correctly, one can hope (though not really expect) that drivers will pay attention.
3/18/2024 – spelt
This 19th century barn at Cherry Hill Farm (Falls Church, VA) may have been used to store or grind SPELT, although they may have called it dinkel wheat or hulled wheat. (SPELT was introduced to the US in the 1890s.)3/18/24 and thus it ends with SPELT
We eat vegetarian at home and love spelt. But finding it in the wild is hard. After stopping at Heidelberg bakery (closed on Mondays, but has some great bread with spelt), I went to Lebanese Taverna Market (but they only use Bulgar Wheat). Eventually I made my way to The Italian Store where they absolutely have SPELT, though they SPELT it wrong (they spell it F-A-R-R-O).
3/18/2024 – Spelt – Aka, a version of the past tense of the verb “to spell”, more commonly used in England.
If one has spelt a word wrong, one might call it a typo.
I found this graffiti tag in only two spots today – one was on the ART on an overpass. The other – not nearby – was sprayed on a fence on the MBT. Though not quite as wide-spread as Pezboi, this person gets around!
3/18/24. SPELT
The amazing cookies at Dolci Gelato are made with wheat that might be SPELT and, more importantly, are half price after 3pm. They are a vital part of my rides home when I take the long way.
3.18-24 SPELT I entertained myself by creating a route I called “Spelt Tour” of embassies, consulates, and cultural centers of countries associated with the Ancient spelt grain.
In my early a.m. research, I learned that the oldest known spelt came from Mesopotamia (now Iraq). There was also early evidence of spelt in Syria with much later discoveries and production in Poland and Germany and N Spain cultivars.
I designed a route that started with the Iraq Embassy and then Germany in Foxhall-Reservoir Rd areas. I then went up by National Cathedral to the Polish Consulate and Embassy (the oldest Embassy in service). Â I biked past the Syrian Embassy but missed it because I was fascinated with the Macedonia Embassy.
Last stop before a quick tour of the cherry blossoms was supposed to be the American Wheat Growers Association but I missed the turn and had to use the restroom so bad that I couldn’t backtrack.
At the Polish Consulate, an employee at the gate thought I was so strange for taking a picture of the bldg when I tried to explain why I was taking a picture there. She did not know of “spelt.”
I took lots of pictures but my favorite is of the old Polish Embassy.
The route is public on RWGPS and will hopefully have the highlights and POIs added one day.3/18/2024 – spelt
It was a cold, dreary, and very windy night. And of course like @mtansill, I found graffiti spelt like this:
3/18 SPELT
en route to haines point realized i needed to #scavhunt so i ask the first customer i see coming out of whole foods if he can help me out with a scavenger hunt to find someone with a loaf of bread. Â âHoy dog buns close enough?â
âYes!â
and i take this blurry shot!
i consistently find that strangers always want to help me, just some rando on her, bike, when i say Iâm on a scavenger hunt!
3/18/24 – SPELT
Well you guys are into creativity & I like playing with my words, so I decided to take the S Â off of the beginning of the word & stick it on the end. That makes PELTS.
And here we are again, after a nice warm  few days (when we could even open windows!) back to wearing our PELTS đđ€·đ»
This is me, Joan, Marie & Annmarie, all back to wearing jackets (only those of us on the left half of the pic are playing FS.)3/18 – Planet Word is a place youâd go to know not only how a word is SPELT but how words became language, and also how language is alive and continues to evolve
Planet Wordâs home is in the Franklin School in our nationâs capital. Originally opened in 1869 and completely rehabilitated between 2018 and 2020, it was designed by renowned architect Adolf Cluss as the flagship of eight modern urban public school buildings in Washington, D.C. The building served as a model for the modern public school system based upon a comprehensive system of universal free public education ⊠but originally only for white boys and girls as D.C. schools were segregated at that time.
More recently, in May 2022, the North American School Scrabble Championship was held live at Planet Word when Walden Giezentanner, a seventh grader, and sixth grader Nathaniel Campos both SPELT enough words correctly to be crowned champs.
Many thanks to @Serdar & @Kelley for sponsoring this challenging pointless prize; the adaptation to Wordle was brilliant and definitely warmed up the brain before the legs for the daily ride. And elite kudos to the other players who definitely ratcheted up this yearâs competition w/ artistic & witty bent!
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