2025 Photo Scavenger Hunt
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2/16/25 Trail. This top section of the MB Trail has recently been repaved making it a smoooth ride down to Piney Branch Road. Doesn’t get plowed though!
Scavhunt
2/17/2025
I solved this one in 2 — it’s a VERY important word to me! (Me too! The importance part, not the solving)TRAIL
2/17/25 – TRAIL
Can’t forget the Custis TRAIL! I love the Custis trail cuz it takes me almost door to door to DC – AND it has lights that go on at dusk & it gets plowed.
Plus it’s hilly, not a trail trail like the others. I don’t always appreciate the climbs, but the hills and twists make the trail SO much more interesting. Plus, I shoveled a bit of it during snowmageddon, so I feel bit of ownership of it now 😁🤷🏻
The only thing I’d improve are the lights. They’re the dim.yellow sodium lights – when one goes out there’s a dark spot. I’d like to see them changed to bright LED lights.
I want this for multiple reasons, one of which is personal – I can’t see in the dark. Even on the lit Custis I hafta slow down a lot at night. (Glaucoma x35 years.) However I’ve talked with ppl with good night vision, and they’ve agreed with me about the dark door when one of the lights on the Custis is out! So yeah great trail, but room for improvement.
2/18/2025 Indie (short for independent)
An independent owner (Pete Buck), in front of his independent bike shop (Handy Bikes), leaning on a bike that his independent shop recently worked on. Shop is located at 3800 Wheeler Avenue in Alexandria, currently most everything in the shop is 20%-50% off.
#scavhunt 2/18 – On this morning’s cold ride, I stopped for my ABC at Bluestone Lane’s Boro Café in Tysons in a stand-alone building. It is not an INDIE, but part of a small chain of “Australian” Cafes and coffeeshops. I had been to their Upper East Side café in NYC located in a portion of the Church of Heavenly Rest on 5th Ave across from the E 90th St entrance to Central Park. It was always very busy
2/18 – Indie
You can find so many interesting titles at an independent bookstore that never would be carried by a chain.
2/18 indie
Angelika pop up near Union Market shows indie films. The “let’s rethink high school” mural next door–in the spirit of more “indie” thinking?
2/18 – INDIE artists are great when they use an everyday objects to create beautiful public art (@theartalchemist)
2/18/25 – INDIE
Ani DiFranco is probably my favorite INDIE musician. Her song “Gravel” starts out:
I heard the sound of your bike
As your wheels hit the gravel
And your engine in the driveway, cutting offHere’s Beth posing for me with her bike in the gravel in tribute to Ani’s lyric (sister kinda bike (She’s not ridingqqao it because it isn’t her gravel bike & it was too cold today to be courting injuries.)
Also Ani’s INDIE record label is Righteous Babe Records- and Beth is also a Babe., as am I, cuz we ride with Babes on Bikes 😃🚴♀️🚴🏼🚴🏼♂️🚴🏼🚴🏼♂️🚴♀️🚴🏼🚴🏼♂️ 🥳
It’s from when Ani was younger, & used to tape her fingernails together to get a chopped staccato kinda sound outta her guitar. In her autobiography she says she viewed the guitar a percussion instrument.
Here’s a link to “Gravel ” It’s a good example of Ani’s percussive guitar style.
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