Today was spent in a neighborhood located right on the Lexington/Fayette county border with Jessamine county in an area called Sunny Slope Farms.  This is a new neighborhood, with houses ranging in age from maybe five years old to not-yet-built.

There are a few surprises.  One is that you can get very close to the electrical substation here.  The substation provided a droning hum that was surprisingly loud nearby and remained audible for most of my walk.  The power lines radiating from the substation require clear ground underneath, so this provides some greenspace through the neighborhoods.  Less of a surprise but also noisy, the CSX tracks run behind this neighborhood.  A northbound train passed by and sounded it’s whistle for the crossing at Waveland Museum just as I was passing by; not ear-splitting but loud.   Though I’ve learned from experience you get used to blocking out the sounds of these trains passing by.

My second surprise was at the end of Loblolly Lane, essentially the City/County border.  And though I knew before hand that the Jessamine side of the county line here was still agricultural land, the peacefulness of the view was still quite a contrast from the noise of the substation and train.  And I can imagine having this view from your backyard or at the end of the street would make up for a little noise.

A final surprise was a small fenced area with a sign indicating a cemetery.   The fence encircled an overgrown area not visually much different than the area around it–there were no visible grave markers of any kind.  Perhaps a relic of the area’s not-to-distant past

What works: There are some tranquil places here.

What doesn’t: Some of the noise is inescapable.