One of the underlying themes of The Gentle Art Wandering is that wandering can be done anywhere, even in an urban environment. In addition to street scenes, urban areas have an abundance of creases and corridors where the natural world thrives. They are perfect places for a wandering adventure.
One of those places can be found on the floor of the Rio Grande valley in New Mexico. There you will find a network of irrigation ditches, called acequias in New Mexico. Many of the ditches date back to Spanish days and earlier.
A few days ago I took my dogs on walk along a ditch in Albuquerque’s South Valley. The ditch eventually joined another ditch which made it possible for us to loop back to where we started. Like all walks, this one was wonderful and had many surprises to make it an excellent morning.
We started our walk near a duck crossing and headed south.
