"It's Raining in Skull Valley" by Charles C. Niehuis..

“Southward to Sonora”

THE desert rolls into the ocean and the ocean becomes part of the sky. A great mountain rises out of the desert, huge, rocky, spinelike, wearing a scarf of gay clouds. To the north is Arizona and America; to the east, Chihuahua; to the south, Sinaloa; to the west, the Gulf of California. Roads cross the desert and mountains and along the roads are ancient towns and villages, yawning in the sun, and a few cities, villages grown big. Land of sunshine and laughter; land of peon and patrón: land of wealth and poverty: land of beauty and music and great patience. This is proud Sonora Arizona’s neighbor to the south.Life is serene and placid in Sonora. The burro sets the tempo for village life. Why hurry? There is always mañana.