Course participants will create landscape drawings or paintings using the medium of their choice. The first class will take place at WNMU and will include information about landscape drawing. After that, each class will take place at a different outdoor location. The instructor will give a short demonstration at the beginning of class and will provide individual help to each participant. Participants should bring their own supplies.

Learn about recent events and what they mean as well as what to expect and how to prepare for the time to come. Significant Earth changes are predicted for 2012 and this class will explain more about Native American, Mayan and other ancient prophecies. Rosalee will also share understanding gained from her visions and insights from her nearly 20 years of spiritual and Shamanic work regarding this time of change leading up to 2012 and beyond.

How a small group of medieval monks, who wanted to get away from secular life, managed to revolutionize European agriculture, manufacturing, international trade, taxation, politics, nationalism, architecture and art.

What's better than a scoop of cold, homemade ice cream to cool the heat of summer? Three scoops! Join us to learn some of the delights in making your own ice cream, and help us devour the evidence!

(Do you want to speak Spanish?): If your primary knowledge of Spanish is limited to items on the menu at a Mexican restaurant - or if you know no Spanish at all - and would like to learn, then this is the class for you. The course will focus on basic Spanish words and conversation. In addition to a formal class session once a week, course members can choose to participate in informal Spanish conversations that will take place at local coffee shops and/or other locations arranged by the facilitator. Judy Coleman is a native speaker, and has taught both ESL and SSL to children and adults. Judy is also one of those wonderful people who have the ability to make you feel like you've had a nice warm hug even when she hasn't touched you.

"When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume." Come join this course and learn about the 21 native species of orchids in the Southwest, the conditions for growth, the culture requirements, tools and equipment needed for growing, insects and diseases, purchasing plants locally and outside Silver City and many other aspects of growing orchids. Curtis Dinwiddie was a past president of the Las Cruces Orchid Society and spent many years nurturing orchids here in Silver City. Currently an instructor in ceramics at WNMU as well as being a graduate student, Curtis brings a great deal of knowledge of the world of orchids both a great deal of both good and bad experiences with these beautiful flora of our area.

If you are interested in any type of outdoors activity, sign up for this course. WILL is scheduling at different levels hikes, bike trips, and other activities for members over the next year. Monthly informational & sign-up meetings for each activity will take place on the fourth Tuesday of the month, prior to a scheduled event. ? We are looking for reliable trip leaders for all kinds of activities. Can you take a group on your favorite hike? Can you canoe? Do you dance with the stars, or are you down and dirty in caves? Contact WILL to set up dates!

About 1000 years ago a Mimbres pueblo was built at the "Mattox ruin" on top of an earlier pithouse village and was home to nearly 200 people. Near by is another pithouse ruin (the Harris site) that might have been populated by the same people who eventually moved to the Mattox site. Tours of the sites are very limited and available only by special appointment and WILL is very excited to have scheduled two days in which participants will not only have a guided tour of the site, but will have the opportunity to eat a campfire dinner at the site, hear stories about the site around the campfire, and to converse with university students who are studying the site. Participants on June 21 (Section A) will meet at the site at noon and will have the option to stay for the campfire. Participants on June 22 (Section B) are welcome to join this campfire experience on June 21, and will reconvene at the site at 9:00 the next morning (the site is only about 30 minutes from Silver City). Please come prepared for hot weather and hiking - bring water, sunscreen, a hat, and lunch and/or snacks.

Becoming Effective by Being Complete - How many times have you found yourself distracted by "loose ends" or discovered that you are wasting time worrying about matters unfinished or unaddressed? This workshop explores what it means to "let go" and to "be complete" as a vehicle for living a life of simplicity and intention. We will discuss what this means for each of us, what it takes to bring it about, and what practices or habits facilitate the process. Finally, each participant will have an opportunity to design his or her own "Completion Project."

Bats have long been known to roost in mines; both active and inactive underground workings are documented as receiving use for roosting during different seasons of the year. However, what happens when the picks, jacklegs, and rails fall silent? With over 25 species of bats in the US that regularly spend some portion of time underground, the abandoned workings of yesterday have become exceptionally important roosting habitat for the bats of today. With increased pressures in natural habitats of all types, the artificial roosts inadvertently created by the mining activities of decades past now provide critical roosting habitat for millions of bats across the western US. From shafts to stopes, adits to crosscuts, bats live in and utilize all types of underground workings for many parts of their life cycle.

Go back into the fascinating mining history of our area. Tour Bayard's Historic Mining District, traveling along Highways 356 and 152 in a Corre Caminos bus. Learn Grant County mining history (which was much more than copper), view historic head frames, and take in the Santa Rita open-pit mine from the overlook with Bayard historian Terry Humble. Terry worked in some of the underground mines that he discusses, and he peppers his talk with stories and facts you can get only from a person with first-hand experience.