We’ll add that Steppin’ Out's print edition is growing, too – the pages are longer this issue. The longer length was a serendipitious occasion but may become permanent– do you like it? Let us know. We always welcome comments (unless its during last minute deadline pressure.) :rolleyes:
This issue celebrates the harvest season. As the weather cools off, art events and community festivals heat up around the Land of Enchantment. Harvest season brings out the wonderful aromas of roasting chile and signals the start of harvest festivals from county and state fairs to regional heritage and art/music celebrations. Celebrations from Rio Abajo Days in Belen to Socorro Fest to the Sunflower Folk Art Day in Mountainair feature the best of each area’s cultural, art and horticultural heritages.
And then there’s the festivals designed just to have a good time, including Demings Great
American Duck Race, Cottonwood Fest in Alamogordo and Carrizozo’s Street Fair.
The skies get more colorful during this harvest season as well, when the weather becomes more suitable for hot air balloons: White Sands hosts its show in the middle of September, while the Albuquerque Balloon Fest, the granddaddy of them all starts the first weekend of October. Then Socorro’s growing Balloon Rally is in late November.
Look around this issue and online to get lots of ideas for fun and fine art – all within driving range of you. And with all the recent rains, your travels around the state will offer a profusion of color and beauty of the natural New Mexico landscapes– and a harvest of original works of art. The holiday gift-giving season is after all just around the bend – and giving unique arts and crafts is so much more personable, don’t you think?
The next issue, October/November, we’ll celebrate the return of the winter birding possibilities – and a whole new cornacopia of beautiful art.
Until then, practice random acts of kindness, senseless acts of beauty!
pengwen
This issue celebrates the harvest season. As the weather cools off, art events and community festivals heat up around the Land of Enchantment. Harvest season brings out the wonderful aromas of roasting chile and signals the start of harvest festivals from county and state fairs to regional heritage and art/music celebrations. Celebrations from Rio Abajo Days in Belen to Socorro Fest to the Sunflower Folk Art Day in Mountainair feature the best of each area’s cultural, art and horticultural heritages.
And then there’s the festivals designed just to have a good time, including Demings Great
American Duck Race, Cottonwood Fest in Alamogordo and Carrizozo’s Street Fair.
The skies get more colorful during this harvest season as well, when the weather becomes more suitable for hot air balloons: White Sands hosts its show in the middle of September, while the Albuquerque Balloon Fest, the granddaddy of them all starts the first weekend of October. Then Socorro’s growing Balloon Rally is in late November.
Look around this issue and online to get lots of ideas for fun and fine art – all within driving range of you. And with all the recent rains, your travels around the state will offer a profusion of color and beauty of the natural New Mexico landscapes– and a harvest of original works of art. The holiday gift-giving season is after all just around the bend – and giving unique arts and crafts is so much more personable, don’t you think?
The next issue, October/November, we’ll celebrate the return of the winter birding possibilities – and a whole new cornacopia of beautiful art.
Until then, practice random acts of kindness, senseless acts of beauty!
pengwen