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15-May-2021

Just your average garden stegosaurus

I guess dinosaurs are bigger than I realized on Capitol Hill.

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The Capitol Hill Restoration Society has a "whimsical" scavenger hunt on their website in which you're given a large number of addresses on the Hill (along with pictures with no addresses), at which people have works of "art" in their front yards. Some of them are quite showy, some are small and rather ordinary, but we spent the afternoon tracking most of them down, and these are the resulting pictures. The society first introduced this tour last year but was again promoting it for their 2021 Mother's Day "Tour of Tours," so we thought we'd take them up on the challenge. Which it definitely was.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

The last iris, posted earlier:

Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max
1/120s f/2.2 at 7.5mm iso80 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Zoltán Balogh27-May-2021 05:51
I would be scared to find it...in the darkness, at night. :) V
lou_rozensteins21-May-2021 00:12
Well found!
Julie Oldfield20-May-2021 13:25
I can think of a few that need to go. The dinosaur seems like he is screaming to get out. V
Don20-May-2021 11:01
I heard there were quite a few dinosaurs on Capitol Hill. It was in our news I recall.
danad20-May-2021 06:46
A nice capture ! V.
joseantonio20-May-2021 03:31
nice capture and framing.V.
Dennis Hoyne20-May-2021 02:52
This is cool! I want one. An exciting find.
Don Mottershead20-May-2021 01:16
Looks like a good spot for a herbivore.
bill friedlander20-May-2021 01:07
Look at the hide of this guy. Captured in supreme detail. V
globalgadabout20-May-2021 00:43
an appropriate guardian of the old school thinkers...even his spines ;look like tombstones..
janescottcumming19-May-2021 21:56
Oh so all the dinosaurs in DC are not just in the Capitol building? V
Isabel Cutler19-May-2021 21:42
If I were walking in that neighborhood at night I might become just a little unsettled.
hayl19-May-2021 20:25
This is a good one - looks like it’s chowing down on the periwinkle/ ivy.
larose forest photos19-May-2021 20:17
That would give one a surprise if found in the garden! What a very cool sculpture. V