I have visited all the sites where I placed the QR Codes/Objects but I felt like I needed to also walk to these objects. The #4 QR code is located at the Western gate of the Rio Grande Nature Center. The walk started at a park just off of Montano Boulevard. The park had a large number of wooden sculptures carved from dead tree trunks. It reminded me of sculptures I encountered during a walk in front of an apartment building off of Washington near Lomas. I wondered if they were created by the same artist? It was a Saturday that I took this walk along the Rio Grande and the pathway that winds next to the river is a popular place to enjoy a walk, run or bike ride on a Saturday. I took notice of both the wide swath of dirt path that follows along the paved path. Some runners were running on the dirt path and all bicyclists were on the paved trail. I assume that the volume of traffic that the path sees they've had to employ a more automotive street approach, complete with a center divide and demarcation of where one should pass. There is also an area where I came across stairway made from railroad ties that descended to the irrigation channel and a bridge across. This particular area and bridge was unique in that it seemed to lead to an area completely fenced off. There were no signs as to where the bridge provided access to. It was only further down that I found a sign noting that the the area was a riparian sanctuary. I also noticed a sign for the Aldo Leopold preserve, a somewhat mundane event yet the fact that it is a preserved place that has corporate sponsorship...all things seem to need sponsorship these days, from professional sport arenas to nature preserves.
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Walk #8
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