Our Changing Neighborhood

Our neighborhood has been undergoing changes ever since we moved here, The old homes that have been here since the 1940s and 1950s - similar to this one - are slowly disappearing.

At first people simply renovated them, adding rooms, replacing windows. Most of the people who moved to the neighborhood liked to garden. In fact, one of the neighborhood's names was "St. Clair Gardens."

But more recently, builders have been buying small homes on large lots, removing the houses, dividing the lots, and building two large homes where one small one once stood. These new homes take up the whole lot, leaving no room for gardens.









Here is one empty lot where a house was recently torn down. Now the surveyor's markers indicate the lot has been divided in two.

For those of us who love the neighborhood's gardens and trees, it is a sad change...








I suppose we should be thankful that the neighborhood is being fixed up, not run down. But before long, it will no longer be known for its gardens.