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@camiller 208991 wrote:

I am planning on coming. Thanks for organizing the ride.

Cathy, I thought you’d seen all of the art in Reston! You must be a glutton for punishment!

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@AlanA 208977 wrote:

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

The one in Boonsboro, MD has gone rogue!
I have to confess, this is the closest I’ve ever been to one of these.

I wonder — if they feel the need to say they’re “rogue”, are they really?

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On the Little Free Library quest today I came across this one in Vienna. It was one of the three I found most nicely painted. But my LFL Scavenger Hunt photo is one I’ve already captured for publicartfinder. That’s how much I like it!

But this one is a close second!

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I finally took a road less traveled today that I had noticed off the W&OD but never had reason to explore. And what a find! It’s a badly paved wormhole with narrow path and high fences that dumps you out onto Fellini Ct in Vienna. From there you can get over to the Vienna Metro. I didn’t see any films being made, but there was a Little Free Library.

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@huberww 208841 wrote:

This wormhole is a half-mile long set of tunnels and bridges that carry you smoothly over the Dulles Toll Road. Access this wormhole from the sidewalk on the westbound side of Route 7 at Tyco Road (near Spring Hill Metro Station), pass the last of the car dealerships and ascend the first bridge. This winds around and eventually drops you out … on the muddy shoulder of Route 7 about half a mile short of the Lewinsville Road intersection. This fine bike infrastructure is worth the trip. But for those of you sporting fenders, beware of any vines extending out into the path which may grab your fender and cause an unplanned stop (as happened to me). Thanks to rcannon for showing me this one.

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Site of future trail extension?
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When the Rt. 7 transformation is finished, these will finally connect. In the meantime, the lack of maintenance is causing them to quickly deteriorate. They are fun to explore and dream about “someday”. Right now they’re less wormholes than unfinished symphonies.

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3/2/21 Little Free Library with bike in picture

I had so much fun with this today. I’ve noticed these things popping up all over so I decided to use the map to make a general outline of a ride but allow myself to ‘free flow’ if I saw others. My plan was to take a photo at each one and then decide which one to post based on some random criteria. I could have gone with prettiest, best stocked (as in full), scariest (the one on the playground at the elementary school where kids were outside playing but as people went through the area on bikes or walking the teachers gathered them in like a mama hen with chicks), most thoughtful (the one with a step stool for little ones to climb up and select their own books) or funniest (the one with 9 3/4 on it).

In the end, after 26 miles and 20 little free libraries, I came back to one of the ones near my neighborhood that is beautifully painted. Sadly, due to our photo limitations I can’t show you all four sides because they are each truly worth seeing. The back of it has a spider web with ‘READ’ in it, shades of Charlotte’s Web. This LFL is NOT on the map, but if you’re going to be in the Fox Mill area of Herndon and want to know where it is, I’ll be happy to tell you. (And take notice the car in the driveway has a bike carrier on the back – these are GOOD people!)

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@Boomer2U 208924 wrote:

Hi Serdar, you certainly are racking up the public art work! The easiest way for me to keep track is if you post one piece per Strava ride logged, as then the #publicartfinder leaderboard does the tally for us. Otherwise the leaderboard becomes meaningless, and my level of effort to tally manually by trolling this thread increases exponentially. The exception to this are the bonus point opportunities, for which I must troll, and tally manually. So the more that you use Strava posts for your individual finds by riding at least a mile — the easier the scoring will be via the #publicartfinder leaderboard. I do recognize that this then implies that you would have to ride to Blagden Alley or Barracks Row a gazillion times in order to record all of the murals there on the #publicartfinder leaderboard. But maybe that would be motivation to ride every day? Thank you for asking, as you are not the only one who posts multiple art pieces per ride.

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To add to this, Serdar, I feel your pain. If I make the effort to take a long ride to a target-rich art environment, I want to post every one of them for points! But I just try to take a photo of each and when I get home I try to figure out which one I liked best or feel most like sharing and call that my “official” entry. I guess if one wants to stop and start the ride again for each piece (as long as there’s a mile riding in between them), it would work to post multiples and the leaderboard would ‘catch’ them. But it’s Boomer’s game and up to him as to how he feels about that. In the end, the joy is in the riding and seeing a new neighborhood of artworks because the prizes are, in fact, pointless.

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3/1/21 – Pig or BBQ Joint

My riding partner (Lefty Laura) and I biked to two different BBQ joints today, one in Reston and one in Herndon. Neither had any pig images so we settled for BBQ restaurant signs and started working our way back home. When we were within 2 miles of our respective homes Laura called out, “PIGS!”. And sure enough, one porch held two pigs, so we each got a very satisfying photo.

This little porker is in charge of ice cream security.

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Well, despite the forecast saying “cloudy”, about the time we started riding it started raining hard again. We persevered over to the library where I took a photo of an untitled piece. I had taken a photo of it on Saturday but decided to use a different photo of art. But then, I got home and realized my bike wasn’t in the photo from today. So I’m invoking the “within 72 hours” rule for the photo with the bike but including today’s photo as it shows more clearly the reason my brain was foggy — weather related!

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As I wondered out loud to my riding partner as we rode in the rain to get these mattress photos — what on earth keeps all these places in business? Anyone? Anyone?

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Soggy wormhole today – but all paved. This allows one to cut over from the often busy Herndon Parkway to neighborhood streets where you can work your way back to the Green Lizard and other places that serve adult beverages. The street it connects to is Madison, thus — Wormhole Madison.

In Herndon

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Runnymeade Park in Herndon…where the weather was runny today, indeed.

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A pair of functional gates with an artistic flourish. In Herndon, VA

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At this point my gloves were still water resistant and my optimist sunglasses were still functioning fairly well. The things we do for points …

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@Laurie E. 208818 wrote:

Find the words Black or White, more credit for both words 2/27/21

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These cookies are what came to my brain when I saw what drevil asked us to get, but I couldn’t think of where I might find them! Good job spotting them, Laurie!

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