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Blog Entry 140 of 191 From the mountains to 6th Avenue
Many Evergreeners commute. It's been described as a commuter community. Accurate. So there is an etiquette to commuting. The first rule: Leave early. Even if you depart for a 9 to five job at 6:30 a.m., you will not be alone. If you like being alone on the highway, go to Montana. The second rule: Leave early If you don't get off til 5 p.m., take a book on tape, because you will be sitting in traffic near Federal and 6th, and entertainment of any kind is helpful. There are polite drivers, like me, who let others sneak in, especially in merge lanes. I try. You probably do too. The one thing I have decided that will not happen to me is that I will not be mangled in a car wreck on 6th Avenue or I-70 in either direction. What do you do to keep this promise to yourself?

Douglas Park Road slow transformation
Contributed by: Karen Groves/YourHub.com   on 7/8/2007

Some people travel around the world, I travel around the block.

This circle that includes part of Meadow Drive, part of Douglas Park Road and Pine Drive in the Hiwan Hills subdivision of Evergreen is part of the world of the neighborhood fox, the elk, deer and all the neighbors, some of whom are new and some who have lived here probably 40 years or more, like the Shephards, who live on Pine Drive.

Other neighbors have been here awhile, but not that long: like Holly and Chris, Steve, Caroline and Axel. The Simons have been here a long time.

Michael and his family are just moving away. So we'll have new neighbors across the way.

What I see when i walk around the block is the so-called progress of the looming development of the hillside above Douglas Park Road.

Here is a photo from last summer and one from today. As you can see, it's a gradual process. As you can see the treeline has changed considerably. What was solid trees is now a vista through to Bear Mountain in the east.




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