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It's 7:30 a.m, and things are swirling in front of the 7-11 store at Copper Avenue and the Fourth Street Mall in Downtown.

Terrie Wonderbright, 52, has a good view from her wheelchair on the steps of the store. She takes another bite from her Cherry Mash candy bar and fumbles with the cigarette butts in a small tin box, looking for one to light up.

"I'm homeless and can't find a job," she says. She talks about the hit-and-run driver who broke both her legs last April. Now she lives on the streets and in local shelters when she can get in.

A young woman dressed in tight-fitting jeans rushes from the store, the clicking of her black high-heeled shoes fades as she makes her way up the street to work. It reminds Wonderbright of a time when she worked with women like her, selling fine jewelry at Foley's in the Cottonwood Mall.

"I used to work in fine jewelry, and I won the Pinnacle Award for selling $90,000 worth of jewelry in 1995," she says as she takes another sip from her Big Gulp.

Two young skateboarders ride by on their way to Amy Biehl High School. In the corner of the steps, a man lays his head on his rolled-up sleeping bag and watches as people set up their tables of baseball caps for sale in front of the store.

"Don't take my picture unless you give me money," he yells. "Come back around noon and see when the cops chase us away."

Across the way, two women sweep the sidewalk in front of the Albuquerque Plaza Office Building. Elizabeth Munoz and Jenny Ortiz, employees with Albuquerque Janitorial Service, slowly move along the sidewalk dragging their dustpans behind them.

"We have to sweep all the way to the next street, and we clean the building inside, too," said Munoz. Wonderbright comments on how hard they are working, then pauses to show me her the ring on her finger.

"Fine jewelry is still my forté," she says.