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A Wonderful Mountain Summer

12/16/2012

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A Kinko as big as your arm!





It was a difficult summer for me.  All along I've been reporting on how great it was for us - and it was - we rocked out more food than ever and had incredible abundance in the gardens.  But I just didn't feel good this summer.  Perhaps it was from the heat, my right leg hurt, my arms were heavy and it felt like I could get nothing accomplished.  Other people told me they actually felt nauseated from the heat.  

Hey - I'm a mountain woman - I can't do heat.  Basically I lurked in the shade - moving from tree to tree and under any kind of cover.  Then I'd try to beat the dark and do all my chores from 6-9pm. 
It seems like summer just ended with these first snows - we've been enjoying the warmth all this time.   
I'm awake now though and the other day I went through some pictures and realized what a wonderful mountain summer it was.  Here is an eclectic group of experiences and moments.  


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This storm kicked ever-lovin' ass up north - it was just rolling by.
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Glorious Penstemon growing out of a severe cut in the Wets.
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Getting ready for dinner.
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The Blue Moon
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Watching it come up with my friend on Skyline Drive.
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Beautiful CC students waking up in the Grandfather Tree after working.
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Beautiful volunteers in Cord's greenhouse.
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My chamomile bed - coming along.
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Bertha May with her seed grown apple trees.
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Wulfgar's first omelette.
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What a beautiful intruder!
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Late summer birthdays on the secret water.
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I chased these rainbows all the way home - the picture is out my sun roof while driving!
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Some of the last tomatoes - right before squeezing and saving.
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4/6/2019 05:07:47 pm

Getting the chance to spend summer season in mountain is actually good! But because of reasons that involve your body, you weren’t able to maximize what this season can offer. Nonetheless, I believe that it was still a good summer season for you because you experienced something new. When we get the chance to enter a whole new world, what we should do is to be thankful with it and maximize the experience. You never know, it could be a start of something new to you.

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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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