Today took me to the Copper Trace neighborhood (really, a collection of several subdivisions including Wyndham Ridge), along the Fayette/Jessamine border near the point where Clay’s Mill Road crosses it.  The homes in this area seem a little older than they actually are–I would have guessed the oldest houses here were from the 1980’s, but they seem to generally have been built in the 1990’s and early 2000’s.  Overall, the neighborhood has a pleasant aesthetic, with tree-lined  streets and lot sizes that aren’t really “cozy” but which aren’t wide open either.  I’m all about subjective impressions, and this area (especially the portions along Weber) didn’t feel so much like a neighborhood in a city the size of Lexington as a neighborhood in a much smaller town.

Beyond the small-town feel provided by the streetscape,  the most notable aspects of this area are related to it’s proximity (like the walk on Day 50) to the county border.  Some houses on Weber back to the county border which is pretty clearly delineated here with houses on one side and agricultural land on the other.  Besides the striking visuals of tract homes next to open space, this also provides some auditory sense of distance with the noise from some far away arterial that probably would be dampened in a neighborhood further from the edge of the city.  This portion of Clay’s Mill is probably one of the loneliest stretches of sidewalk I’ve encountered, with a long stretch behind the backs of houses and especially with traffic pouring out of the city at the end of the day.