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@drevil 210103 wrote:
3/19/21 – “Freezing Saddles” 5-letter word (or longer) subanagram
Does this count as a danger panda? Like mootsfy, I associate Freezing Saddles with “danger” because you have to be careful when riding. And pandas from all the danger panda selfies!
For my last entry, I went to visit the I’m Speaking Mural at the Southwest waterfront in honor of International Women’s Day. It is a crochet composed of 150 people across the country each stitching a square!
I was hoping I would get a chance to visit the inside courtyard of the Cool Disco Dan mural at the 14th St Graffiti Museum. Unfortunately never got around to it but did manage to capture part of the mural from a distance. Still cool from a distance!
An MLK mural by Bus Boys and Poets on K St which I meant to pass by earlier for MLK day. It’s part of a series on hope and his words still ring true today: we must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Saving the best for last: NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It’s the US agency responsible for science and technology related to air and space. NASA led us to the moon and to explore other planets in our solar system and in the process spun off lots of technologies that we use everyday including solar cells and the CMOS image sensors used in all digital photography. Let’s see where NASA leads us to next!
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry on 16th St. This is modelled after the Greek Mausoleum at Halicarnassus which was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Anicent World for their remarkable construction. Also quite interesting is that it is a lodge for Freemasons, a fraternal organization that originally started as stonemasons. The Ancient world and even the Renaissance relied heavily on stonemasons to build impressive and long lasting structures. Not sure if the Freemasons still learn masonry as part of their craft but we now have architects and engineers!
The Carnegie Library of DC which is now an Apple store. The top part says science, poetry, and history and the bottom says “a university for the people.” There were about 2500 Carnegie libraries built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. I’m assuming for many of the smaller towns and cities these were probably the first public libraries and one needs a literate population in order to be able to go on and do other things like study science and engineering. I didn’t realize that Carnegie also funded libraries outside of the US including the UK and Canada probably because of his Scottish heritage. Quite the feat!
Perhaps another questionable #lakefinder, but this is the Southwest Duck Pond. Unfortunately it was under renovation for a while but they recently finished and now just need to finish filling the pond!
@drevil 210056 wrote:
3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it
Neither snow nor rain…
