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Sorry for missing seeing this. There was an update yesterday morning; the ghost bike installation in Shaw was last night (Friday) to correspond with the family's candlelight...

Muted, but still simmering. At the ANC SMD meeting where DDOT presented their plans, Annie's Hardware was clearly displeased, but didn't say anything in the meeting. Another business owner spoke up...

Good morning!

As some of you may have seen, a few weeks ago DDOT came back to "the community" to present its revised plan for adding protected infrastructure on 8th NE to close that on-street gap...

I think it worth reporting to 311 - maybe not for the short-term issuance of fines, but adding signage.

Even better - paving wrapped up about a week ago and Wednesday-ish (maybe the day after you went through?) the fencing was taken down for the bike path. There's still some work in the area - mostly...

Not DDOT; DPW is responsible for maintenance/cleaning, so anyone who sees any cleaning needs should submit a 311 ticket through the mode/means of your choice.

The FY 2023 budget includes dedicated...

While a lot has been done the past few months for the MBT extension to Fort Totten, it hasn't necessarily looked like it. However, very visible progress has occurred over the past couple of days. ...

Sure, but at least there's public art on the outside (the advertising/mural) so that's something? Regardless, my nemesis of "no bike in picture" foiled me again. I blame the "10 mile in a ride"...

3/19: OK - this one is a bit of a stretch, but there's something rather artistic about this collection of scooters and bikes (and a stroller!) that seemingly were retrieved from the Tidal Basin and...

3/16 - A wonderful mural on the side of the Annie's Ace Hardware store on 8th NE just south of Monroe (on the missing middle link of the MBT) for the Black Girl Ventures Foundation.

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3/15 - The SWBID funded a number of "Traffic Box Art Wraps" to bring a little bit of life to otherwise bland traffic boxes. This one can be found at 4th and G SW (across the street from my favorite...

3/13 - The John Lewis mural at 13th and Pennsylvania SE

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3/11: On today's ride, I stuck with a photo close to home. Near Dance Place (on 8th NE near Kearney) is this wonderful art piece called "Square Dance" that also is functional, hiding the dumpsters...

3/10: Totally forgot to post yesterday's photo of one of the pieces outside The Modern at Art Place (one of the new apartment buildings near Fort Totten Metro).

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It's the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building (900 Jefferson SW). It is the second oldest of the Smithsonian museum buildings on the mall, first opening in 1881. It was closed in 2004 due to...

It was so nice today I had to get a second (long enough for this) ride in. Along the Forest Glen Pedestrian Bridge (alongside Georgia Avenue crossing the Beltway near the Forest Glen Metro station)...

Riffing on my ongoing theme of "public art close to home that I get to submit because I managed to go 10+ miles in a single ride" - an oldie but goodie is the statue "Helix" outside of 1800 Wilson...

That's the latest on the website. It looks like late last week they've gotten back to working on the trail itself (they had laid down the base layer of gravel for a small section between where...

Two rides today, so two public arts!

First: a mural neighborhood kids did as a "community benefit" of a new development. This is along the driveway to 3025 4th NE in DC.

Second is a mural...

2/23 - There are a number of wildlife statues around the Capitol Crossing site (the development on top of 395 between Massachusetts Ave and F Streets). Not entirely sure why, but the most prominent...

2/21 - Does it still count as public art if it serves as an invitation to pay for access to private art? Why did I not get my bike in frame (it's to the right)? At 524 Rhode Island Ave NE (near...

Yep - she'll be 11(!!!) this summer. (By now it's probably almost 3 years since *most* people here have seen her - at the 2019 FS closing HH...)

2/20 - A DC Go-go mural painted last April on a market at the corner of Alabama and Randall SE. (Someone started "encouraging" me to go back to my own neighborhood so I did not get a good picture...

On today's (long enough) ride, I managed to find one of the "Art in Bloom" pieces from last year's Cherry Blossom Festival. "Celebration" by Sandra Pérez-Ramos, despite what the website says, can be...

I can't claim credit for it (since I didn't have a single 10 mile ride today), but I also can't not share one of the murals along the MBT at Tanner Park.

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