Metropolitan Branch Trail walk tour

Quest the visual artist who talked about her mural projects on the trail.

Quest's van she is painting

Quest and Spokesman for EverybodyWalk.org

The meeting point at 400 S. st. NE for tour of trail and free lunch in green boxes

waiting for more tourists 

Tour leader Heather Deutsch is center  talking to participants about the tour

waiting to get walking...

walking to get to Quest's mural about half a mile up the trail 

A mural project along the trail and some wild flowers 

Quest talking and pointing at a mural project she managed on the trail

She works with kids and they designed her mural then painted it with only one hours instruction in spray painting. 

The biggest mural in DC is as long as a football field at the parking lot by the trial near Rhode Island Ave. 

one of seven totems recently installed at RI Ave. entrance to the trail 

Another cool mural at the head of the trail where it enters Brookland. This mural's theme is the Anacostia rivers history

We all turned around and walked back to S. street 

Today I took a chance and went to tour the Metropolitan Branch Trail with a walking group. Heather Deutsch from the City came and told us all about numerous things along the trial. She says that since the cameras went over the trail and police have been patrolling more there haven't been any more muggings on the MBT. Media often over hypes these sorts of crime stories. I was really pleased to have a big group to walk the trail with me for the first time. Now I have seen there are places  that would be great sketching along the trail and more and more art going up all the time. This is a great thing to have near my home. We saw about 10 bicycles pass while we were walking and a few walkers too besides the tour group. They headed downtown to the Kaiser Health center but I was tired and needed to come home to get some work done so I said good bye after 1.5 hours touring. The mural artist Quest was cool and moved here from West Coast where she says people are more friendly but she has only lived here for three weeks. She has a work live space in the new Dance Place artists residency building on 7th St. right next door to Mr. Lee's garage where we get our car worked on regularly. It's also on the road that is designated part of the MBT near our Brookland Metro. I heard about the tour on facebook. Free lunch was nice and healthy from Ridgewells a DC catering company. Thanks Heather for a great tour!