Live and Learn New Mexico!

Michelle Worley here, L&LNM blogging today about the beautiful Turquoise Trail, as I've done before, but this time I'm taking a look at the dark side -- the litter. I wasn't aware that there was so much trash along the side of the highway until my son, Daniel, and his companion, Mariah, decided to collect cans to make a little extra money. They rode their bikes up the Trail from Cedar Crest to the Lazy Lizard bar, which is next to a gas station/convenience store. They figured there would probably be some cans around there. They were right. I think it was the guide at the OASIS walk I went on last week who told us about how someone put little flags everywhere a dog had done its business out in the area we were walking. There were so many bright flags that it looked like a field of flowers. If we did the same with every piece of litter, every can, we saw on a strip of the Turquoise Trail, would it look like a field of flowers? I'm not going to go so far as t

Michelle Worley here, for Live and Learn New Mexico! (L&LNM). I've blogged about Abq OASIS before. They offer great classes for people over 50, and I've been taking a lot of them. This fall, I'm taking the Abq Walks class. We meet at a different open space/neighborhood each week, learn about the area, and get a good walk in.  Today's walk was a little slower, more like a stroll, but that is because we were busy looking at artificial dinosaur bones and miscellaneous artifacts that had been placed into the sides of the Arroyo de las Calabacillas when they shored it up back in 1998 to better deal with flooding issues.  The arroyo, where we walked today, runs under Coors Blvd. but you wouldn't know it. I used to live in the area and didn't know about the arroyo and its treasures.  Dinosaurs in the arroyo So let's go back to 1998, when Michael Wallace took advantage of the opportunity to make the arroyo project something people could learn from. O