[uujudy]

What is happening with the new ugly lighting throughout the Villages? The beautiful lighting and the warm ambience they created was a huge selling point to this ex-photographer. We arrived at night, and I fell in love with the place with my very first drive down Buena Vista.

When they installed the solar lights on the Villages signs I thought, "Surely they will put a warm-colored filter over the lights?" They haven't done this so far....

Now the beautiful, warm-colored Thomas Kinkaid-ish coach lights at Spanish Springs have been replaced with WalMart parking lot-ish colored lights. What's that all about? The lights are so bright I have to shield my eyes to look toward the square, and the 'daylight' color is jarring. Did the professional lighting engineers retire and leave the Villages lighting in the hands of the interns? Can they install yellow glass in the lamps, so the lighting isn't so harsh and ugly? Does anyone know what's happening to our beautiful lighting?

Please illuminate me,
Judy