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Even the sun heads south in anticipation of winter in the northern hemisphere. In New Mexico, we're glad to watch that old, fiery orb tilt toward the equator, marking our drift into Autumn. After all, it means cooler days, harvest time and burning a 40-foot son-of-a-bitch we've been waiting to get our hands on all year. It also means finally turning inward after a summer so geared toward big events and tourism that it sometimes feels like it's a full-contact spectator sport. The big events of fall, like the
and the
, are mercifully more geared toward honing those hearth and home skills or having one final sun-drenched, guitar-licked afternoon with friends. Overall, it's a time of reflection, whether done by wiling away the hours during the
, finagling a
or fretting over
. Maybe it's even a good time to launch your own
, an artistic medium, we're told, that uses all the hemispheres, no matter where the sun is.
