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@Indiana 215368 wrote:

Little Free Library on corner of Lawrence and 12th St NE DC, in front of St. Anthony’s.

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Could probably use more typical kid picks than the self defense training book KidSnowLeopard was eyeing.

Love a girl with goals!

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@Boomer2U 215323 wrote:

No, they did not appear to Buddhist monks of the Tibetan or SE Asian sects that I am familiar with, but rather maybe Shakta (Hindu) monks as they all wore the mark of the tilaka and had head/ facial hair… though I did not ask and am not sure. How can you tell the difference?

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I just wondered due to the colors — didn’t zoom in to examine anything. Growing up in Japan and then visiting Thailand a couple of times, I became pretty complacent as to seeing monks there – but still find it unusual in the US. My younger brother was fascinated by the Thai monks’ “begging bowls” – he thought he might try to start that tradition in our neighborhood for himself. My mom quashed his zeal explaining religious tradition vs. greed. lol

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@rumipumi 215348 wrote:

2/1 lunar new year

Thomas stone elementary — Home of the Tigers!!!

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Was that artwork on the walls of the school? Wow!

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2/1 Lunar New Year

In researching this I discovered that up until the 1940’s there was a quite a large Chinese community in El Paso. There was even a distinctive “Chinatown” for many years, with people on both sides of the border taking advantage of the fresh produce and other uniquely Chinese traditional medicines. But the community dispersed and any Chinese or other Asian residents here seem to be just part of the neighborhoods they live in – not standing out in any way.

As a result, there is a dearth of Lunar New Year celebration or imagery here in west Texas. So I rode to the best reviewed Chinese food place thinking they’d be putting on something special. Not.even.a.banner! The food was good though, so I call it “mission accomplished.”

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@Boomer2U 215347 wrote:

And the results after the first month of competition are …..

@cvcalhoun was both curious and on top of the scorecard due to 13 bonus points! She is also the second most efficient in hunting down public art per mile rode … so place your bets on her moving forward!

Pete C is a distant second, but maybe earned bonus points under a different name on the Bike Forum where those bonuses are awarded … I dunno [emoji1744]? Pro tip: let me know if you post on the Bike Forum under a different name than your Strava ID!

Rod Smith was a late entrant and came dangerously close to sandbagging points, but is close behind at third place (and safe as long as he posts his finds in a prompt manner;-)

The names in”red” on the above spreadsheet have posted on this Thread … and some even earned bonus points … but use different names on Strava, so I don’t know how to assign their Strava miles nor verify their finds/posts. Repeat PublicArtFinder service message: let me know what your Strava handle is when you post on this Thread if they it is different from what you use here.

Finally, there may be some double counting amongst the early birds who posted before the BAFS leaderboard was reset to zero for 2022. Only 2 of the 6 “early birds” confirmed that they had corrected the #publicartfinder hashtags on their corresponding Strava ride titles. If you deleted, you can now retag those early bird rides (granted that you didn’t score them on a second ride already).

Full deets on scores can be found on the #publicartfinder scorecard https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1Ob3HlhU34D4xrtbttsDIAu2knT8MOIZQ2EcAr6s5YF0/htmlview

I will issue another update by no later than end of February. In the interim, go ride & seek some cool art!

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I’m not sure how the scoring works. I thought I had tagged each time in Strava, but then going back through here, I saw that I had posted at least 14 distinct times with bike in each photo. In the end, it doesn’t matter as it’s pointless…and it’s fun to set out to find something each day. The problem here is finding so many things in one day, but far enough away from my house that I don’t want to go back every day for the next week to get a separate photo.

At any rate, thanks for running this whole shebang Boomer! It gives me a target each day!

And here’s the first post for February. It’s a beautiful sculpture in an odd place — at the corner of an intersection near a whole raft of big-box stores. The extra photos are to show the lovely detail.

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The two children are riding a sweet horse pulling a wagon. The wagon has sacks of something in it. The piece is so complete. This is what I found about the artist: https://delavegastudios.com/

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@Indiana 215284 wrote:

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Little Free Library in the 1600 block of 11th Street NW DC near the Shaw skate park. I didn’t have my daughter cross the busy street for the photo op when I spotted this one, but she was there and was disappointed when I informed her it was an adult-focused selection. If our panniers hadn’t been full of books she picked out from the MLK Jr. Library, I might have been tempted to borrow the Bill McKibben book.

My personal goal for LFLs was to make it at least through January finding libraries by luck and memory, without consulting a website or map. Made it! Thankful for this challenge helping to make riding fun and thankful for a community that generously shares books in many places!

Wow – what a feat! Congratulations. And you’re right, the DMV is blessed with a plethora of LFL’s. I didn’t realize how much so until I was down here where most of them I find are associated with a school, on school property. The idea hasn’t really caught on well outside of that arena.

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@Catedrew 215296 wrote:

1/31/2022 – LFL

This one is located at 230 N. Jackson Street, in Arlington

It is a very small LFL, and had a good selection of adult and kid books stuffed in there, but I did leave a contribution of a Dr. Seuss board book.

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I guess a small one allows for some control over contents? Thanks for leaving a book!

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@consularrider 215091 wrote:

Have you been to Ft Davis yet?

I did the Big Bend ride in 2017, so yes, been to Ft Davis and the big circle through the Chisos Mountains. You know, that fort and county are named for former Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis (1850’s) … before he went on to other jobs.

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@Indiana 215283 wrote:

1/31/2022 Martin Luther King, Jr.

My daughter and I rode to the renovated MLK library and enjoyed this book display:
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“A place to land,” (top left) is a children’s book about the “I have a dream” speech. From the publisher: “Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing where to end. “It’s terrible to be circling up there without a place to land.””

Very true. A preacher friend of mine said he prayed every day, “Lord, please don’t let me be a boring preacher!” He wasn’t so … prayer works! He also said that if when he preached people weren’t uncomfortable enough to get up and go DO something about it, he had failed. I miss his preaching!

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@Boomer2U 215237 wrote:

1/31/22: MLK – The view from where “I have a Dream” happened (minus the multitudes)

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Boomer, are those Buddhist monks?

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My last “probation office” piece. No attribution or name on it.

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My last “probation office” public art. No name or attribution for this piece.

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1/31/2022 Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was on a tight time-line today between mom’s appointments and the road named for him as well as the apartment complex were a little far.

SO, in the spirit of how we are encouraged to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, I rode to the local park and picked up trash – an hour so of service.

This is such a car centric city I’m sure the people who saw me thought I was on a bike due to DWI and picking up trash as punishment.

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@bikedavid 215143 wrote:

Mini Library as it is called at H St NW and New Hampshire in Foggy Bottom. Contains mostly fiction and the occasional technical book including one on Pascal if anyone still programs in that language!

PASCAL! Wow . . . I think someone shortstopped that book on the way to the local used book sale donation bin! But who knows what might grab someone’s fancy?

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And in a serendipitous, “I’ll go back this way – oops wrong turn – oh my gosh, what IS that?” … my favorite for today.

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