Pretty sure Louisville is the largest small town in the country. We're supposedly (according to Wikipedia) the 28th largest city in the US but you still can't set foot in a bar without running into at least one ex. There's half a dozen blocks of skyscrapers and the rest is just sprawl.
I say supposedly because if you consult five different sources you'll get five different totals for the city's population. Is it like that where you live too? It's wild, they range so much (300,000 to over 1 million) that you start to become suspicious that nobody knows how to count.
When I moved here back in 2004 they were claiming Louisville was the 16th largest city in the US. People would get downright prickly when I would suggest that their math was may be a little suspect. The city and county had just merged a few years prior, gave the city quite the population boost on paper but it was just a new way of counting. Explaining that if other cities counted the same way we'd be much further down the list went over about as well as Fox News calling the election for Biden.
Upon further reflection, I'm not sure why I bothered, nobody is worried about silly things like methodology these days anyways. Much better to go on #WednesdayWalks in the park(s).
Looks like this blog isn't the only thing going on a detour. Now where was I going with this?
Right. #Thisiswhywecanthavenicethings. Kids these days . . . keeping old traditions going.
Sometimes the more you look at it the more you start to wonder about people. Who can translate interpret this? The other side of the sign was explaining the construction going on nearby but this side just left me with more questions.
Like what's with shoes hanging from power lines? It's not exactly an uncommon sight but I've yet to discover the how's and why's of this coming to pass.
Don't know what it is about cities but it seems as if the closer people live to one another the more isolated they are from each other. I grew up in a rather rural area before moving to the largest city in the state and it was as if I'd swapped physical isolation for social isolation. Anyone else ever have that experience?
Enough rambling, time to fly! Photos are all from Iroquois and Cherokee Parks here in Louisville.
