Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What happened here?



Jon and Susan drive past Partridge Lane (off Silas Creek Parkway between Silas Ridge and the Robinhood Road exit) several times every day. Last week one of the seemingly solid brick walls at the entrance to this community was severely damaged. No tire tracks were evident at the scene. Vandalism? Materials failure? A natural disaster? It's a drive-by, neighborhood mystery.

Last night's walk revealed that Tiffany and Piccadilly are indeed not connected, so the Google maps are wrong. One travels quickly down a gradient of respectability on Tiffany - the further one gets from Peacehaven, the less conformist the approach to property maintenance. By the end of Tiffany, non-conformity is the rule. A developer squeezed in a surprising number of small houses adjacent to the power lines, most likely in the early 1990s. Who lives here? Another mystery. Further down Peacehaven, we walked through the Arbors apartment complex all the way to its end, where we encountered a broad and rather scenic stretch of Silas Creek. A woman on one of the apartment balconies told us that she often sees 3 deer come down to drink in the creek as evening falls.

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