Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

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2/22/21 purple house
This is the purple pirate house (there wasn’t any wind to lift the pirate flag). This is one of those houses I haven’t been in for about a year now, but I can’t wait to stand in the kitchen sipping whiskey again soon. [emoji171]

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[LhasaCM]

2/22 – Purple “House”

What is an apartment building but a big house for many people divided into separate spaces? Near Woodridge Library on Rhode Island Ave NE is The Violet, with a subtle coloring to match the name (even if the lighting makes it even more subtle)…

(Britannica also calls it an “apartment house”)

[LeftyLaura]

2/22/21 – Purple House

I wanted to present the purple house for Fairfax County glass recycling but convinced myself it was not a house. Next the HOA rules for earth-tone colors hampered the search for purple, even on Purple Sage Lane. I present a beautiful, tasteful purple door with a red, not pink, winter wreath..Enjoy.

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[josh]

@drevil 208387 wrote:

2/22/21 – Purple House

I agree with others that what looks purple in real life doesn’t necessarily look so purple once you’re looking at the photo later.
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I had a much more colorful house, but I wasn’t sure sure if it was quite purple enough, and it was edging towards pink. My photo lopped off the second floor, but this house looks like your prototypical Philly rowhouse, but with much prettier window boxes than most.

[karenbikes2]

@Kbikeva 208433 wrote:

2/22/21 – Purple House

At the risk of losing a perfectly good pointless point, I’m going to offer the following as creative interpretation that doesn’t require photoshop:

The call was for a purple house. It did not specify that the house must be a house for humans. Thus, I offer this purple tree painted on the side of a parking garage where birds nest in the spaces.

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After all, it’s just a point. Plus, all the photos I took of houses with purple-ish shutters didn’t look purple once I got home. Purple really is in the eye of the beholder when there are HOA restrictions on color!

Brilliant, imho!

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[karenbikes2]

@Kbikeva 208411 wrote:

My mom lives down on the border, and the culture there cheerfully embraces bright colors as well as thriftiness. In some neighborhoods you can see the progression of one person’t leftovers to another person’s front door to someone else’s roof trim, etc. It’s quiet delightful. I live in Reston which restricts color choices to specific ‘earth tones’ so we will bike this afternoon to a less restrictive area!

Even in the Reston neighborhoods that allow a little color, no purple that I could find. Yellow, red, blue, green doors yes, but no purple. [emoji53]

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[HokieBeth]

2/22 Purple House

On Leslie St in Del Ray, looks a bit more purple in person.

And Purple Rain earworm all damn day [emoji1787]

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[Serdar]

@drevil 208387 wrote:

2/22/21 – Purple House

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A house with purple shutters
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[Mtansill]

@drevil 208387 wrote:

2/22/21 – Purple House

I’m really excited to share with you all the purple house in my neighborhood. Not only is it painted a totally awesome purple color, but it is the headquarters (or at least the place of residence) of Looney Labs – aka the folks who created the popular and fun card game Fluxx. Check them out here: https://www.looneylabs.com/

Of course I also love that they have a purple car… and do you see the purple bicycle on the porch??? Purple. Purple. Purple!
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[EasyRider]

2/22/21 – purple house

Ok, it’s not a house, but South Arlington’s notorious and recently shuttered Purple Lounge is too purple not to submit.

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[Steve O]

2/22/21 – purple house

I did an image search on “purple door alexandria” to see what might pop up. I went to an address that had shown a purple door, but the door was definitely blue, not purple.
However, all around that neighborhood were a variety of homes of different colors with different accents. Some were kinda purple (periwinkle? mauve? maroon?), but the longer I would look, the less purple each one seemed. I kept collecting photos hoping for an even more purple one than the last.
This is what I ended with.

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[Catedrew]

@drevil 208387 wrote:

2/22/21 – Purple House – The house does not have to be totally purple — it can have purple shutters or a door.

2/22/21 – Purple. There used to be a purple house in our neighborhood, but when the family sold it and the new owners painted it green. And then there was a used car dealership on Glebe Road that was painted a very garish purple with yellow trim. Well, that got painted over a few years ago. Darn! So, I couldn’t find a totally purple house, but I did find a house with nice matching purple front door and garage door in Arlington.

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[cvcalhoun]

@Steve O 208448 wrote:

2/22/21 – purple house

I did an image search on “purple door alexandria” to see what might pop up. I went to an address that had shown a purple door, but the door was definitely blue, not purple.
However, all around that neighborhood were a variety of homes of different colors with different accents. Some were kinda purple (periwinkle? mauve? maroon?), but the longer I would look, the less purple each one seemed. I kept collecting photos hoping for an even more purple one than the last.
This is what I ended with.

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I had a similar problem. I found a house (image here) described in Bethesda magazine as having “dark purple trim.” When I arrived, the red/orange bits were gone, and the trim looked blue rather than purple to me. I’m not sure whether they repainted the purple bits blue, or whether the author of the magazine article had a different view than I did of what “dark purple” meant. (The color the article said they used definitely looks more blue than purple to me.) But I passed a house on the way there that was pretty much solid purple, and decided to use that rather than worry about what color that trim actually was.

[Kbikeva]

@EasyRider 208447 wrote:

2/22/21 – purple house

Ok, it’s not a house, but South Arlington’s notorious and recently shuttered Purple Lounge is too purple not to submit.

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I’m sure that when it was in operation there were people who pretty much lived there …

[drevil]

2/23/21 – Mosaic (likeness or word)

On February 23, celebrate National Tile Day by seeking and taking a snapshot of a mosaic – a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.

The word “mosaic” is also acceptable, but I think it’s safe to say that we the horde prefer the art

Happy hunting!

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(Really cool mosaic photo stolen from Mark Brody’s site.)

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