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  • #1135840
    cvcalhoun
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    @kbikeva. thanks for the catch!  I have no idea how this happened.  The site is supposed to give me a new object every day without recycling.  But clearly it screwed up this time.  I have now fixed it, but my apologies to anyone who went out last night.

    #1135850
    celestesollod
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    Jan 10: Named creek or river: Stony Run in Wyman Park, Baltimore, as seen from Wyman Park Drive

    #1135851
    celestesollod
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    Are Temple and Synagogue considered the same for purposes of this game?

    #1135852
    cvcalhoun
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    @celestesollod: For purposes of this competition, any Jewish congregation – regardless of whether it is called a temple, synagogue, shul, Hebrew congregation, or anything else – is a synagogue. Similarly, any Christian congregation, even if it is called a temple, is a church. For anyone who has temple on their card, I will count only the Mormon Temple or a temple of a religion other than Christianity or Judaism. This is not to disparage any particular religion; it is merely to draw a line so the same building is not counted for two different objects.

    I did have to think about whether the Mormon Temple should be treated as a church or a temple, and my ultimate decision was temple. There is apparently some dispute about whether Mormons are Christians, but I was definitely not going to wade into that morass. (They say they are Christians, and I am not about to argue with anyone’s characterization of their own religion.) I ultimately put it in the category of temple rather than church because it is my understanding that it is not a congregation, but rather a special purpose edifice for particular ceremonies.

    #1135857
    Srfrjulie
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    Jan 12- flowers

    symbolic, artificial, and dead real options! Wood flowers on a fence
    Pink artificial flowers next to a stoop in the snow
    Old chrysanthemum flowers on a bush in the snow

    #1135865
    bikeeveryday
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    Jan 12, 2025 SynagogueOhr Kodesh Chevy Chase MD

    #1135867
    bikesnick
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    1/12/2025 – flower

    Edgeworthia buds

    #1135869
    DCAKen
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    1/12/2025 – flowers

    A trifecta! Not only is  “flowers” in the shop name, it also contains “Violet”, plus some frozen flowers in the planter

    #1135874
    Nadine
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    1/12/25 – FLOWER

    Dried hydrangeas – but still on the tree! And not at my house 😁🤷🏻

    Thanks to Jenn for noticing them on the way to our meetup

    #1135875
    LhasaCM
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    1/12/2025 – Flowers

    I *was* going to take some pictures of the bouqets at “She Loves Me” in Eckington, but the person working solo in the florist seemed a bit uneasy with my presence outside the store (can’t say I blame them), so I instead went to this flower art at Tanner Park.

    #1135877
    Caitlin Hesser
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    January 12
    Flowers

    This one was hard! Biked around forever and only saw the little window picture. But then the corner shop on my block ended up having a bunch of real ones right by the door.

    #1135880
    cvcalhoun
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    January 13 – Sculpture (nonperson). Any public art sculpture, except that it cannot be a sculpture of a person or include a person.

    #1135883
    celestesollod
    Participant

    Thank you for the clarification!

    #1135886
    sszibler
    Participant

    January 12 – Flowers</p>
    Johnnie’s Florist 2000 Georgia Ave. Florida & 7th St. NW

    They aren’t alive or real, but I’ll bet there are some real flowers 💐 somewhere in there and it wasn’t stipulated that they couldn’t be plastic. Or a plastic Duck or Train, etc.

    #1135888
    cvcalhoun
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    @nadine, sounds like you got an overly officious cop.  If you’re taking a photo from the sidewalk, you are not on private property, and taking a photo of private property from a place you’re allowed to be is perfectly legal.   People may be a bit jumpy these days due to the rise in antisemitism, and I can understand not wanting to antagonize a cop even if what he’s saying is wrong, but this doesn’t need to be a general warning.

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