Day 60 took me to the Monticello neighborhood, just west of Shillito Park. This is similar in many ways to the areas I’ve visited the past few days, though this neighborhood is slightly older, with 70’s era “two-story” ranch houses dominating.
We saw our first significant snow fall in Lexington this morning, so I really wanted to capture the snow before it could melt off the trees. The snow certainly has an impact on viewing the neighborhood as well, though, serving as a modulating factor by muting the visual impact of lawns, gardens, roofs.
A couple of things stood out to me here. The first is that the sidewalk along Monticello (at least on one side of the street) marches right into Shillito park. This is nice, perhaps a little unexpected as I’m used to seeing a sidewalk built by the last house on a block then end abruptly.
The second feature was the appearance of the South Elkhorn Creek, a tributary of the Kentucky River. The creek is shown above, passing between houses in the neighborhood. I’ve passed over dozens of little streams in my walking in Lexington and it was neat to finally be able to identify one as the headwaters of a creek large enough to have a named watershed. (The Apple Maps application actually labels another stream in this area as “South Elkhorn Tributary”, though I appreciate them being labeled at all!)
