i live near downtown abq, but i work in schools located in "south valley", an area of abq which, according to wikipedia, has 1,323.3 ppl per square mile (the rest of abq has 3,010.7 ppl/sq. mi.; west hartford, CT has 2892.6 ppl/sq. mi.; sf has 17,160 ppl/sq. mi.). when i leave my urban neighborhood and cross into south valley, i feel like i'm entering a foreign country. my drive to work is lined with fenced fields holding in grazing horses. once i swore i saw a brown llama sitting serenely by himself in a sea of grass. i keep the windows rolled up when i'm driving to keep out all the dust that the trucks kick up. in other words, south valley feels like deep country to me.
here is the view from the end of the driveway of one of my schools. the school itself is the building in the distance.
on my way to work, i pass hand-lettered signs advertising ammo. i pass a trailer park. i pass a road called "gun club road". the other day i noticed this cluster of signs:
the signs on the ground are kinda hard to read, but they say (from front to back): alfalfa, straw, FEED, chicks, ice crushed block, frogs, crickets, pond turtles, baby turkeys, ducks, chicks, chukars (apparently it's a kind of bird- i had to google it), pheasants, guineas, rabbits, grass, hay, pigeon sale.
here is the view from the end of the driveway of one of my schools. the school itself is the building in the distance.
on my way to work, i pass hand-lettered signs advertising ammo. i pass a trailer park. i pass a road called "gun club road". the other day i noticed this cluster of signs:
the signs on the ground are kinda hard to read, but they say (from front to back): alfalfa, straw, FEED, chicks, ice crushed block, frogs, crickets, pond turtles, baby turkeys, ducks, chicks, chukars (apparently it's a kind of bird- i had to google it), pheasants, guineas, rabbits, grass, hay, pigeon sale.
here's a goat i saw in the school parking lot:
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