Traveling Downtown (38°15′15″N 85°45′37″W)

Prospect has hot dry summers and cold winters. This is the view from my bedroom window after a heavy spring rain.

    In the spring of every year, the residents of Louisville join to celebrate the Derby Festival. The Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Derby Festival  are both important aspects in the culture of this city.  They are not only what our city is known for, but are also tourist attractions and are good for the local economy. Since the Derby has come and gone and I haven't written anything on this blog about my hometown, I decided that it would be good to give you, the reader, something to compare and contrast with my travels.  I live in the city of Prospect, but most of my daily activities happen in the suburbs of Louisville. The states that border Kentucky are Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Ohio. Louisville lies on the Ohio River. Many large cities sit beside rivers because rivers made the transportation of goods easier when the cities were first founded. They also provided a source of food and water. Even today, the Louisville water supply comes from the Ohio River. This is a natural resource for Louisville. The Ohio River does all this and is the site for Thunder Over Louisville, a huge fireworks and air show that is part of the Derby Festival. I live in Prospect, but I traveled to downtown Louisville for this occasion.

This is the view after last winter's snow storm.

     Prospect has some very large areas of forested land. It also has a few horse farms. Here, there is lots of land and and there are no really large buildings like there are in Louisville. The city is mainly made up of residential subdivisions and shops. The climate for both Louisville and Prospect is the same. We have cold winters and hot summers. Last winter we had a substantial amount of snow and we have only just recently come out of a long system of rain storms. You must travel west from Prospect in order to get to Louisville. The trip takes about ten to fifteen minutes. The show was stunning. My favorite part of the display is when fireworks are launched off the bridge and it looks like there is a fireworks waterfall flowing into the Ohio River. It may have been a gray and chilly day, but the wait was worth it.