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@Kbikeva 210099 wrote:

It was difficult to make this one interesting but your backdrop certainly does!

Thanks! I did try to think of the most scenic postal box around. The Franciscan Monastery has helped me out with several of these challenges!

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3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box
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3/17/21 – Rainbow, Leprechaun, or 4-Leaf Clover
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Bike at the end of the rainbow at the end (or the start) of the MBT

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3/16/21 – Panda or Danger Panda

Thinning the herd in the last few days of the competition with the danger panda attempts? :p

A few weeks ago my daughter and I rode by this panda-painted rain barrel. I said to her, half jokingly, “remember where that is in case we ever need to take a photo of a panda!”

So we had to go back today.

On the way home I started to experiment with hands free riding, but it made my daughter scream “Don’t do it!!! Stay in one piece.” That led into a discussion about how sometimes it seems like everyone else is doing something risky, but you don’t have to follow along. So as tempted as I was to try it out on my solo ride later on, I kept my promise to her and will stick to the safety panda.
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So thankful to the healthcare heroes and other essential workers!

A few from today’s ride:
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3/15/21 – Christmas Ornaments or Lights

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Ha, all these would have been preferable to the actual quote at the time, which was something like

Mom: isn’t it so cool you get to ride your bike and pick up food on the way home? Bet none of your other friends are out now.
Kid: none of my friends’ parents drag them out on a bicycle in the middle of the night in the middle of winter!
Mom: Um, it’s 6:30pm.
[And for the record we first signed up for this competition on her request]

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Now that looks more comfortable than a broomstick! All the better to find my pretty Dorothy, and her little dog, too! [Cackle cackle]

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3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

Sir Issac Newton

According to biography.com, Isaac Newton was born prematurely and not expected to survive. His mother abandoned him to a grandmother to run off for several years with a new husband, coming back once he died. Isaac Newton apparently was so bad at farming that he had no other choice but to go back to school. He then was a less-than-stellar student who moonlighted as a waiter and housekeeper. He lost two years of University when Cambridge closed for the Bubonic Plague, but came back stronger than ever (a beacon of hope for today’s pandemic students?).

And then there’s the stuff we learned about in science class. Newton may not have actually been hit on the head with an apple, but was inspired by a falling one to understand gravity. He figured out key principles of light and the laws of motion that now bear his name. He also greatly advanced understanding of planetary motion among other achievements. Then after some hard times, breakdowns, and acrimonious scientific battles, he delved into alchemy.
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(May or may not be the Newtonian street name inspiration)

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3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder, or Umbrella
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Multi ladders leaning on tree visible from the trail..
Given the large dog I heard barking after I slammed my breaks to grab the photo, it may indeed have been very bad luck to try to walk under them!

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3/12/21 – Flower 2pts

Earth laughs in flowers!
Today saw holdover blooms from last year:
Phlox
Camelia
Pansy
Hellebore

And new blooms for 2021:
Snowdrop
Crocus
Daffodil
Dwarf iris
Hyacinth
Dandelion
Purple deadnettle
Periwinkle vinca
Creeping blue
Witch hazel
Forsythia
Mahonia
Cherry blossoms

In the spirit of freezing saddles, I’ll submit here a winter bloomer called ‘Gold Finch’ Paperbush (Edgeworthia chrysantha)
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I hadn’t noticed it before and needed to walk my bike through the Franciscan Monastery gate to get a close-up.
It was amazingly fragrant, even from a distance and through a mask!

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3/11/21 – Face (using Pareidolia)

I find these all the time, especially on forest hikes, but didn’t know there word for it. Thank you for the new vocabulary!

When we saw today’s challenge, my family all chimed “Mr. Compost Man!” Mr. Compost Man came to life when a face likeness appeared among the scraps in a neighbor’s compost pile, like a divine apparition. Walking by, kids enjoyed trying to see if they could spot it. The neighbor found out people were checking it out (pandemic entertainment!), so over the months Mr. Compost Man became more curated, with shell teeth, sometimes coconut husk eyes, sometimes potatoes, a corn cob nose…. Today the nose was a sweet potato over a stick mustache. But since now the face is intentional, I don’t know if it makes the cut for the photo contest. He’s in my Strava, but instead, I’ll submit this cute little face on the back of a sign in a mini playground, indented eyes, and a shy smile mouth.
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3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” Subanagram (5 letters or more)
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Supreme! Restaurant replacing a pizza place on the North Capitol and Florida. Bike flag in foreground.

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3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)

This Brookland school was taken over by the charter bearing the name of another notable woman already mentioned in the thread, Mary McLeod Bethune. Before that it was called Lucy Slowe school, named after Lucy Diggs Slowe (1883 or 1885 depending on the source – 1937), African American scholar, educator, and athlete. Slowe was the principal of the first junior high in DC for black students, a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Dean of Women at Howard University, as well as the winner of the first women’s national singles championship of the American Tennis Association. She advocated for better treatment of blacks and women. The house a couple blocks away that she shared with fellow educator and possible lover, Mary Burrill, was designated a historic landmark last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/03/26/this-pioneering-howard-dean-lived-with-another-woman-s-were-they-lovers/
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Last month CBS sports honored Lucy Slowe with a little vignette celebrating her many first! https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/lucy-diggs-slowe-honored-with-animated-vignette-by-cbs-sports-during-black-history-month/

The NY Times included her in their “overlooked” series of obituaries that should have been written at the time of death but were not. From it I learned that not only was a school and a Howard U hall named after her, but so was a bison at the National zoo (Howard’s mascot) and a giant boring machine for the First Street Tunnel Project sewer system upgrading: “’Lucy’ — strong, persistent, powerful and with its own Twitter account — moved tons of earth beneath the streets of Washington.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/obituaries/lucy-diggs-slowe-overlooked.html

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3/7/21 – Cookie

I biked with my Girl Scout to Uncle Chips, a favorite spot for cookies or black bean brownies. Unfortunately located on North Capitol.
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We do appreciate the Girl Scouts support and can bike-deliver cookies in DC if orders are placed this week:o

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