You know what week is coming up? It’s the week before DC schools start, and the week that summer camps and programs don’t operate. That means it’s the week we will have grandchildren with us, so there will be no time to continue our trek up Rhode Island Avenue. So, the next installment will wait a while.

But we will wait in the middle of downtown Hyattsville, and today we will walk there from where we left off in Brentwood. It will be an interesting walk of about 1.5 miles (round trip twice that).

Here is a good spot (here are good spots) to start. A small office building.

From here, we walk past one of a number of auto repair shops, one of two Latin restaurants with wall art, and The African American Cafe, where it says you can get a sandwich for $5.

Then, a change. No buildings for a while. A park. Bike trail. Basketball courts. A skate park. A bridge over untroubled waters, the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia Watershed, a 21 mile long stream that flows through both Montgomery and Prince George’s County into the Anacostia River.

Nearby, we see our first historic marker (surprising that it’s the first), honoring the suffrage movement, similar to those we saw in Occoquan VA a few weeks ago.

We move on and ease into Hyattsville. Hyattsville is not the PG county seat, but it is home to many county offices.

And to an odd statue of a police bird, which is said to honor Prince George’s police officers killed in the line of duty. And near that, another piece of public sculpture — horns.

We pass a museum that doesn’t seem to have outlived Covid, but whose building still stands and who outside art work remains.

And then we get to town.

An active retail and arts center. Here are a few photos, all from the south part of central Hyattsville, because when I got to Franklin’s,  I stopped and had lunch. We will continue in a week or so.

And a little more street art:

This last one is on the side of a small machine shop. Maybe not so small.