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Origianally Posted Dec. 24th 2010

1/25/2011

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Total Eclipse of the Moon

Originally Posted Dec. 8th 2010
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They said it was going to be colorful and they weren’t kidding.  I was alone with my scratched up glasses trying to stay still enough to get these shots.  It was a brilliant night with some cloud cover – only high flying and moving fast so I could see the moon plenty.  When it was finally covering the moon – or almost it hung like a big orange ball in the sky with hints of red to taunt us.  As a friend said, I wonder what people thought was happening before we knew what we know now.

My guess – two takes – fear and wonder.    I found myself laughing out loud – not too strange for me but to be there – looking up at it with millions of people across the world – was pretty special.  I guess I wasn’t alone.

Whenever the clouds would clear I would try again to see through the camera to get a steady shot.  But to stand there and take it in as it grew darker and darker was the best way to capture it.  The stars sparkled and danced like a dazzling decoration to celebrate it.  My memory will serve – a breezy, almost balmy night on top of our mountain in December will stay with me forever.


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Denver Deb
1/27/2011 02:38:09 am

I do believe it is official: You are a true seed geek! I must say it is contagious!

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Penn link
1/27/2011 02:57:31 am

Thank you so much! It takes one to know one!

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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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