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2/22/21 purple house
This is the purple pirate house (there wasn’t any wind to lift the pirate flag). This is one of those houses I haven’t been in for about a year now, but I can’t wait to stand in the kitchen sipping whiskey again soon. [emoji171]
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2-20-21 overhead pic from such great heights (with cyclist). UMD has a few elevated walkways. This was taken from one attached to a parking garage.
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2/19/21 planet.
I finally let my Saturn go last summer after 23 years, but I saw this one just a few days ago, and remembered roughly where it was.
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2/18/22 electric vehicle with bike rack. I followed Rumi’s breadcrumbs.
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I meant to go take pics of the Port Town murals the week you put that out as a challenge. I remembered that plan today, when I biked right past one. (Right by Bladensburg Waterfront Park)
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2/17/22 birdhouse or birdbath
Off in the distance… In the water.
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2/16/21 mask or crown for Mardi Gras
Went for the king cake, and found this masked rider.
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2/12/21 ox or likeness of an ox
The kick boxing place had closed, but I found 0x painted on the pavement
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2/11/21 movie poster
[Sad trombone] no poster from me. [emoji22]
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@JoM 207478 wrote:
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s Home –
2131 R Street NW, Washington, DC, 20008From 1917 to 1920, while FDR was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Roosevelts lived at 2131 R Street NW. Today, there is a plaque by the front door that acknowledges the Roosevelts period of residence here.
Now it’s the home of the Ambassador to Mali.
But do you know the story about the bombing across the street? A. Mitchell Palmer (of Palmer Raids fame) lived across the street. A bomber blew himself up on Palmer’s doorstep. The explosion knocked the windows out of the Roosevelt house and scattered body parts on their doorstep. ER and FDR had just parked around the corner and were returning home, and some of their kids were in the house (no one was harmed except the bomber)
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