SQ OCCD is a tribute cache hide honoring an avid NorthWest Ohio cacher well-known for his isms and daily thought provoking observations, adding ponderances & chuckles to our lives, as well as his most recent challenge caching hides…
The "SQ" in the cache name above signifies Spirit Quest, a project by the Northwest Ohio Geocachers to distinguish those caches that are set in cemeteries & memorial gardens.
A skosh unorthodox , this unChallenge Cache honors OCCD,
progress at your own pace through following questions:
unChallenge 1: Read info for your enlightenment:
Circadian regulation of Sunflower Heliotropism…
Immature sunflower plants growth tracks the Sun's movement, leaning westward as day progresses but reorienting to east each night. As flowers maturely open, they settle into stable east-facing orientation. Atamian et al. show how circadian rhythms regulate the east-west elongation of cells in the young plants' stems (see the Perspective by Briggs). Auxin signaling pathways in stem coordinate to fix eastward orientation of mature plant.-oriented flowers are warmer than westward-oriented flowers, and this warmth attracts pollinators.
(Science 05 Aug 2016: Vol. 353, Issue 6299, pp. 587-590 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf9793 authors: Hagop S. Atamian, Nicky M. Creux, Evan A. Brown, Austin G. Garner, Benjamin K. Blackman, Stacey L. Harmer) https://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6299/587.full
unChallenge 2: Is there a correlation between OCD ( Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and the caching name OCCD? Does this correlation or the lack thereof change your opinion of the validity of this tribute cache for the honoree?
Your answer is correct, please go on to next challenge…
unChallenge 3: Do your stats include events like?...
Maryland Geocaching Society Fall Picnic 2011… GC2RYW6
wedding reception… BRAVO872 and GSMom59 are Married!... GC47EN1
OCCD’s (not quite an event, but it could be, depending on your interpretation)
12 Diff Icon Challenge…GC89Y32
CG27 & Chae's Kites and Disc Golf - Friday Night Fly and Fling… GC5TV8D
If not, then perchance you’ve attended other cachers’ fun events celebrating our sport…
if so, well, you’re ready for the next challenge…
unChallenge 4: If you’ve ever stumbled in a gopher, bunny or mole hole, you may glean knowledge from:
Trypophobia - a claimed pathological fear of holes, particularly irregular patterns of holes. The term was coined in 2005 from the Greek τρύπα (trýpa) "hole" and φόβος (phóbos) "fear". Thousands of people say they have the condition. It is not recognized in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or other scientific literature. This fourth challenge has prepared you to now zip on to the hide…
Final unChallenge: On the hunt, you’ll traverse over a bridge that will perhaps invite your thought patterns to the drainage patterns of creeks, springs and floodplains or perhaps you’ll just follow your handheld gps compass indicator…
Wearing Oriental Caching Cherry Delicious lipstick, I concealed this cache hide
at the posted co-ordinates...
You’ll be Searching for a medium size small camouflaged container with caching swag and room for small travel bugs… Please rehide appropriate for an OCD cacher…
FTF reward is – well, the pleasure of the find first…