Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt
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3/09/23 – Rainbow [emoji304]
This morning’s sunrise over the frozen Navajo Trail at Bryce Canyon National Park reminded me of a rainbow. Note: this was the start point of my ride this morning, FYI.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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3/9/23 Rainbows
Hawaii is the Rainbow State, as depicted on my jersey. Also, my phone case has rainbow paw prints. [emoji3590][emoji3448][emoji172][emoji170][emoji171]
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Super cool, but you need to find it on your ride to count!
@Nadine 225211 wrote:
3/9/33 – rainbow
This is in the fence outside oak something elementary school in falls church – where Kathy R’s girls went to school.
Also I wore my [emoji2523] socks for the occasion [emoji16][emoji2523][emoji1377][emoji304]
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Nice, this works to accentuate a “ride-find” with something from home! Also I’m inspired to do that to all the plain fences now…
@Boomer2U 225212 wrote:
3/09/23 – Rainbow [emoji304]
This morning’s sunrise over the frozen Navajo Trail at Bryce Canyon National Park reminded me of a rainbow. Note: this was the start point of my ride this morning, FYI.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Poster worthy!
3/9/23 rainbow
The rainbow fish behind the cross is North Bethesda United Methodist Church’s way of advertising that they are a reconciling church. NBUMC is the first reconciling United Methodist church in Montgomery County.
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Had to settle for a rainbow [emoji304] flag when Rainbow Trends, a clothing store, didn’t seem to exist. Bad Google Maps!
Rainbow Trends? Nope, but when I went in I ran into a guy working there from the DC Bike Party last night. I ran into the bike party at Hains Point. Took a long time to pass them!
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3/9 or 3/10/2023 Dancing alligator
I’m not sure which date to use since the ride started on 3/9, and therefore will show up on Strava for that day, but I didn’t find the dancing alligator until after midnight. But since it can be either day, and I don’t anticipate finding Pango Pango today, I don’t really care.
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3/10/23 Philosophy
1209 10th St NW, Washington, DC 20001 in Blagden Alley NW
Shine, Perishing Republic
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens, I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth. Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence; and home to the mother. You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening center; corruption Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains. And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, insufferable master. There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught—they say—God, when he walked on earth.[1]
“Shine, Perishing Republic” is a poem by the American writer Robinson Jeffers, first published in 1925 in the collection Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems. It describes an increasingly corrupt American empire, which it advises readers to view through the naturalizing perspective of social cycles. Jeffers wrote two companion poems in the 1930s: “Shine, Republic” and “Shine, Empire”.
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3/10/2023 Philosophy
My philosophy is that we do not have any more wars.
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3-10-23 Philosophy
Hard to decide what to post today but settled on the Cemetery and Historical Marker right on Old Dominion Drive in McLean. Have probably driven by there over 5000 times in the last 30+ years and never saw it. It’s right near the Chesterbrook Shopping Center which is getting a big facelift.
You may ask the significance…The “Methodist circuit rider” William Watters (1751-1827) is commemorated and buried here. He was the first American-born itinerant Methodist minister who offered communion and baptisms. I guess this was a controversial practice in the Methodist faith when the Methodist Episcopal Church formed after American Independence, the Methodist preachers were ordained (not sure the pount of that comment on the poorly written historical marker (picture in my Strava ride)
When I bike I posit many philosophical questions…one today that almost got a photo is “why do we all think we need new huge homes?” I biked through McLean neighborhoods I used to frequent when my son was young so it has been about 20 yrs since I had wandered these places. The size of the homes being or recently built are shocking. I think by the time people can afford to buy these houses, the children are almost college-bound. Such big places for two people??? (we have more room than we need too)
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