Day 111-Dramatic Tension

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This walk in the Easthills neighborhood featured a tremendous amount of tension. There was quiet drama. I don’t know if it was impending storm clouds, the grass brown and dormant already in mid-June, the number of people out despite the heat. But it was unique, memorable, enjoyable even. There was just so much atmosphere…  It was dogs barking, planes flying overhead, a truck with a loud exhaust pipe. It was the smell of juniper and spruce trees. These things are everywhere, but there was something about how they came together here that was special.

Day 110-Liberty and Death

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Today brought me back to the Eastwood neighborhood. I don’t know that I really came up with a lot to add. I spent a fair amount of time navigating Liberty Road, which recently recorded a pedestrian fatality near here. If I could be mayor for a day and could add a sidewalk to any stretch of any road in Lexington, it would be this stretch of Liberty.

Day 109-Swinging Through

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Today’s walk was through a picturesque Shadeland neighborhood near Ecton Park. One notable feature: this neighborhood has the market on tree swings cornered! A section of Turkey Foot also features a little segment, a parkway including a bench which looks like a nice place for a respite.

Day 108-All business

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Today’s route was an ill-advised route along Richmond Rd and Man O’War. This area is dominated by restaurants along Richmond and offices along Man O’ War and the side streets. Richmond is the most visually interesting but least walkable. The remaining streets are walkable but plain.

Day 107-Past and Present

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Today was a return to the “Dixie” section of Eastland. This area is pretty typical of its neighborhood cohorts. It’s well kept but shows its age. It seems to have a little more economic diversity than the average Lexington neighborhood but (as I’m finding) it’s sometimes difficult to perceive some of these subtleties through a surface-level  view of the neighborhood.

The mail pouch work shed is worth a moment. It seems odd, at first, but I suppose its consistent with our image of suburbia as keeping us close to both our agrarian past and our urban present.