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2/21/21 – the round Peace symbol or the word “peace” (in any language)
Since the Peace Memorial at the Capitol is now barricaded, I headed to the other end of the Mall to visit the Institute of Peace
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2/20/21 – Overhead Picture from “Such Great Heights”
The Taft Bridge takes Connecticut Avenue over Rock Creek at a maximum height of 130 feet and has a tremendous vista of the park below. Today, with a combination of cold, wind, and poorly plowed trail, there were few trail users. I waited about ten minutes before a lone cyclist appeared.
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2/19/21 – Planet(s) – likeness or word
The American Geophysical Union Building has a representation of the solar system embedded in the sidewalk. It shows the planets and their relative orbits, including Pluto’s eccentric path. The picture shows Pluto dipping inside Neptune’s orbit
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2/18/21 – Full Electric Car (no Hybrids)
It took scouring the back alleys of DC to find something that wasn’t a Tesla. Which isn’t at all suspicious when taking pictures of cars at 1 am…
My persistence paid off with a Chevy Volt. I also came across a BMW i3, but that picture wasn’t as good. Alas, no bike racks on any of them.
Update: with @josh doing the research showing the Volt isn’t fully electric, that gets disqualified. It also turns out the i3 has an optional gas engine, and since I couldn’t determine if that particular car had the option, I’ll fall back to the picture of a pair of recharging Teslas.
1/17/21 – Bird House or Bird Bath
This was a more interesting challenge since it forced me to slow down to look for a bird house or feeder. I figured all the bird baths would be frozen today. I spotted these two feeders in the tree but no birds. So I loitered for a bit until they came for breakfast.
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2/16/21 – Crown or Mask (with eyeholes)
The word and the likeness
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2/15/21 – “St Skeletor’s Day” Subanagram
If you want to prolong that Valentines Day feeling, pick up some “oysters” at the Wharf
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2/13/21 – Diner
They don’t get named any simpler than this
Too bad it wasn’t open for 24 hour take-out
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2/11/21 – Ox
After striking out in Chinatown, where there was surprising no Year of the Ox iconography, I settled for another animal
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2/11/21 – Movie Poster
This has been a difficult one in downtown DC. The theater in Georgetown had removed the poster spaces outside the theater, nothing was up at the Gallery Place theaters, and both Atlantic Plumbing and E Street Cinema were completely boarded up. The West End Cinema didn’t have any posters on display outside, but I could spot a few far back in their lobby. I was able to barely get them in the picture.
As for my favorite biking-related movie, I have a abiding love for Breaking Away, especially as it explores the relationship between the father and son. The father doesn’t quite understand him, but supports him and wants a better life for him. One of my favorite scenes is when they are walking through the campus as night: https://youtu.be/qhiqjAAILGg
*Edit*
I went back in the evening and the posters were showing a bit better in the dark.
2/10/21 – 5 or 6 point Star
These masonry reinforcements are a common site around the city. The anchors are almost always a star.
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2/9/21 – Pizza
Adams Morgan is the home to several pizza joints, all hawking varieties of the Jumbo Slice. For a while, there was a fierce competition, with signs proclaiming “Home of the Jumbo Slice” and “The Original Jumbo Slice” and “The Real Jumbo Slice”. All of them were open until 5 am on the weekends to feed the crowds after last call.
The one thing they all had in common was that their deliciousness was inversely proportional to your sobriety.
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