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@drevil 209972 wrote:
3/17/21 – Rainbow, Leprechaun, or 4-Leaf Clover
Shenanigans is ready for St Patrick’s Day!
The Barbie Pond on Q St now has a coronavirus themed installation to encourage vaccinations. Instead of St Patrick’s Day, Let’s Get Vaccinated Day!
@drevil 209815 wrote:
3/15/21 – Christmas Ornaments or Lights]
Still Christmas round here! I like how someone in the neighborhood hung up lights around their roof turret so that it looks like a tree.
@drevil 209720 wrote:
3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)
Einstein, who is still practicing good masking!
@drevil 209673 wrote:
3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder, or Umbrella
The other type of black cat. Hopefully they will reopen!
Statue of Gen John Rawlins in Rawlins Park behind the Corcoran. It honors Rawlins who was a general and advisor to Gen Ulysses Grant and later as Grant’s Secretary of War when he was elected president. It’s a lovely park in the spring particularly when the magnolias are blooming.
Statue of Gen George McCellan in the little triangle at the intersection of Connecticut with Columbia and California. He was a general who organized the Army of the Potomac which was the principle army of the Eastern Theater and his victory at Antietam temporarily halted the invasion of northern states. He was later removed from his post by Lincoln, ran unsuccessfully against Lincoln, then served as the Governor of Jersey.
Dupont Circle Fountain in honor of Admiral Samuel Francis Dupont. “He played a large role in the modernization of the Navy and during the Civil War he was responsible for making the Union Blockade effective against the Confederacy.” (Wikipedia) This is the only other monument that honors a Union Admiral. There was originally a statue but the family disliked the statue so it was moved and replaced by this fountain. Congress wanted recognition of its earlier attempt so there is an inscription around the fountain that includes the fact that it was replaced. Of all the Civil War monuments in DC this is my favorite and probably many others too judging from the no of people that sit around the fountain on a sunny day.
The new bike lane lane on 21st St that goes from Tonic to the State Department. It nicely intersects with the relatively new one on G St that goes crosstown from New Hampshire to the World Bank. The G St one is so wide that it’s like a bike Express lane!
@drevil 209611 wrote:
3/12/21 – Flower (see breakdown in description)
Daffodils and other flowers in Georgetown!
@drevil 209463 wrote:
3/10/21 – Cell Phone Store OR Wired Phone OR Pay Phone (read details for breakdown)
Couldn’t find a payphone so a cell phone store will have to do!
