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

Topic

[AlanA]

@mrhappy_onabike 209631 wrote:

You would think it would keep getting its top cut off by commercial jet liners.

Haha! Nice catch. I’m so clueless I didn’t even notice.

[Nadine]

@HokieBeth 209648 wrote:

3/12 Flowers

And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won’t forget to put roses on your grave

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What’s that from? Is it a song?

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[Nadine]

3/12/21 – flowers still growing in dirt (2 pts)

Crocuses by St Anne’s school (right on the Custis, taken with Anne actually, though [emoji848] I think not the saint.

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[camiller]

3/12/2021 flowers (growing in dirt)

Found these near someone’s mailbox.

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[Indiana]

3/12/21 – Flower 2pts

Earth laughs in flowers!
Today saw holdover blooms from last year:
Phlox
Camelia
Pansy
Hellebore

And new blooms for 2021:
Snowdrop
Crocus
Daffodil
Dwarf iris
Hyacinth
Dandelion
Purple deadnettle
Periwinkle vinca
Creeping blue
Witch hazel
Forsythia
Mahonia
Cherry blossoms

In the spirit of freezing saddles, I’ll submit here a winter bloomer called ‘Gold Finch’ Paperbush (Edgeworthia chrysantha)
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I hadn’t noticed it before and needed to walk my bike through the Franciscan Monastery gate to get a close-up.
It was amazingly fragrant, even from a distance and through a mask!

[Serdar]

@drevil 209611 wrote:

3/12/21 – Flower (see breakdown in description)

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Flowers growing on Mount Vernon Trail
https://www.strava.com/activities/4936636920

[AlanA]

@Nadine 209658 wrote:

What’s that from? Is it a song?

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Nadine. I’m shocked! I was sure you would know this.
Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers.

[Mtansill]

@drevil 209611 wrote:

3/12/21 – Flower (see breakdown in description)

Since I had heard that Drevil wasn’t aware that there were so many flowers in bloom right now, it amused me to go out and capture a photo of one of the smaller varieties currently in bloom. Purple dead nettle is commonly known as a “weed,” but is both edible and an important flower to pollinators because it blooms throughout a good portion of the year. Earlier in 2020, I added it to a few sandwiches and salads because we were trying to cut down on our visits to the grocery store during the pandemic. So I think it’s a rather cool plant, and am happy that it has covered a lot of my yard. (But these are not located in my yard – just off the trail about a mile away from home.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamium_purpureum

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[Sophie CW]

3/12/21 – Pretty Flowers in the ground
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[bigredboiler]

3/12/21 – Flower

I was going to share a daffodil bunch until I saw so many thousands posted here. I’ve been riding too urban lately I guess, since I haven’t seen them blooming yet; mainly just crocus.
Instead, here are a couple pots bursting with blooms.

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[cvcalhoun]

@AlanA 209665 wrote:

Nadine. I’m shocked! I was sure you would know this.
Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers.

I spent the whole “faces” search with the earworm of:

When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your name
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
When you’re strange

[drevil]

3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder, or Umbrella

National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day – celebrated on March 13 since 2003 – was created in the hope to defy superstitions by having people doing just that and seeing that nothing bad will happen (hopefully!)

On your ride, find one of these three items/words that are associated with good/bad luck:

1. Black cat – may have started during medieval times when animals with dark feathers or fur signaled death
2. Ladder – walking under a ladder is considered bad luck because you are breaking up the holy Trinity (God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit)
3. Umbrella – may have started in ancient Egypt because opening an umbrella where there is no sun would anger the sun god Ra because it was a defiance of natural order

Happy hunting!

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Painting above by Ryan Conners.

[Catedrew]

@drevil 209611 wrote:

3/12/21 – Flower (see breakdown in description)

I saw quite a few flowers today: speedwells (little tiny blue flowers forming a carpet across the lawns), hellebore, crocuses, daffodils, (miniature ones too), purple deadnettle, henbit, dandelions, snowdrops, clover, hyacinths. I almost forgot to post, but it was nice to look through what had already been posted so I could see if I had anything new to add. I saw these miniature irises in somebody’s yard, and I think I might have to track some down and plant some in my yard – I loved them! If I had seen them yesterday, I might have used them for the ‘face’ photo.

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[cvcalhoun]

@drevil 209673 wrote:

Ladder – walking under a ladder is considered bad luck because you are breaking up the holy Trinity (God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit.

Okay, this isn’t even my religion, but I can’t let that one pass. The first one is God the Father, not just God. All three are God.

[Shawnbeast]

@drevil 209611 wrote:

3/12/21 – Flower

Some lovely daffodils i found on my ride. I saw snowdrops the other day but didn’t have time to hear back over there today; I would have preferred to post a native…

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