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1/15 Woodridge Library, Hamlin St and Rhode island Avenue NE DC
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library got a new window wrapping late last year, scene from The Lion and the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney, bike bags for returning books

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1/13 mural through brush
MBT North of Brookland metro
You can see it better from the metro than from the bike path, hard to capture, but still brightens the ride
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1/12 600 block H St NE DC
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Mural by Luther Wright #paintthestorefronts

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Week 3 Scavenger Hunt: National Days!

Rock on with those decades! This will be a tough week to judge.

Here are the topics for next week, a mix of national days, some major remembrances, some just silly.

1/14/23 Saturday National Dress Up Your Pet Day — Show us an animal (real, fake, imaginary, whatever, just NOT YOUR OWN) in clothes!
1/15/23 Sunday National Hat Day — Photograph a fun hat
1/16/23 Monday Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Show something related to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/17/23 Tuesday Prohibition Begins, 1920-1933 — Interpret as you wish
1/18/23 Wednesday National Winnie the Pooh Day (happy birthday A.A. Milne, 1882) — Photograph someone or something you might find in Pooh’s Hundred Acre Woods
1/19/23 Thursday National Popcorn Day — Pop pop pop pop popcorn!
1/20/23 Friday National Cheese Lovers Day — Cheesy cheese pictures, please!

Please remember to find your subjects on your ride. Items/people/costumes brought from home may not count on their own, but they can continue be used to enhance photos of whatever you found. Clear as mud? Ride on!

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1/11 Rhode island Avenue Trolley trail 2017 sign @Rhode Island Avenue & Charles Armentrout Drive, Hyattsville, MD

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I like this contest because it makes you look for art on walls and signs and alleys that you may have sped past before with really looking at.

This was my first time stopping at this sign I’ve booked by before but never appreciated enough. Someone here probably knows the answer to this question–Doesn’t the actual Trolley trail start further north? Is so, why is the sign here (across RIA from Maryland Meadworks and Shortcake Bakery)?

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1/10 mermaid near the Northeast Boundary Tunnel expansion construction site in Truxton Circle DC, near 3rd, S, Florida, and Rhode Island Ave NW
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If you have to put up fencing around a long running, long overdue construction site, you might hope that artists will turn it into an outdoor gallery. And here’s some pretty cool view of the tunnel project on the other side of the fence: https://www.dcwater.com/northeast-boundary-tunnel-project-photo-gallery

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1/9 plant-based animal art outside the National Botanic garden, gecko and swallowtail butterfly

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Plants used include oak leaves, walnut call, willow twigs, catalpa fruit, bamboo rhizome, sugar palm inflorescence, and Michigan buckeye seeds.

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1/8 mural by Chris Pyrate “Fake Florist” outside Little Miner Taco @ 4308 Rhode Island Ave, Brentwood, MD 20722[ATTACH=CONFIG]29471[/ATTACH]
You can see his Cherry blossom motif around DC and on Washington Wizards apparel this season: https://www.nba.com/wizards/news/wizards-unveil-cherry-blossom-inspired-collections-and-designs

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1/8 Little Miner Taco @4308 Rhode Island Ave, Brentwood, MD 20722
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Mushroom Quesotacos
https://www.littleminertaco.com/

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1/7 R &6 NW DC storm drains run to the Chesapeake Bay, nice reminder in art
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(Apologies for speed photo taken at red light)

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@Mtansill 221860 wrote:

1/7/2023: the 90s

This house was built in 1894, and it is one of the oldest houses in College Park. It is also the only one that I would label a Victorian.

My little friends and I visited it this morning.

… No one specified the century.

(Taken with a self-timer)
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Nice! Originally I had 1990s, 1980s, etc., but kidSnowy suggested it would be cooler to leave the century ambiguous. We were wondering who would notice first

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@consularrider 221708 wrote:

1/5/2023 – Lava

I made today’s metric century all about lava (but couldn’t find lava cake for WTFCC). First stop was Via Volcán Coffee Co on S West St in Old Town. The coffee is grown on the lava enriched hillsides of the Volcán Barú in Panamá.

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Then I rode to Etna Place in Silver Spring. According to the Global Volcanism Program (Smithsonian Natural History Museum , which I also rode by), Mt Etna in Sicily was producing lava flow from February to May, 2022.

I love the commitment to the theme!

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#withkidsnowy is tickled that her suggested theme for the day led to people eating ice cream for breakfast!
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Cheers from Captain Cookie and the Milkman at Tastemakers in NE DC

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1/6 Metropolitan branch trail just north of Ft. Totten transfer station
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(Bike in far left)

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1/5/23 rainbow in NoMa, across the street from the Florida Ave Trader Joe’s
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A sculpture? A bench? A rainbow! Amidst omnipresent construction, tall buildings, and traffic.
(Extra exciting to find rainbow art because when I started out on my bike commute today there was a microshower that brought an actual real rainbow in the sky!)

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