The Mountain Town Blues // The Downsides of Paradise
We feel lucky every day to wake up a place we love, but it’s not all perfect either. Mountain towns come with their own set of challenges, and today we’re sharing ours.
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✨August in the garden✨ I’ve been enjoying just being in the garden this summer, not taking and sharing pictures all the time. And this strange, unusually cold summer has meant that the garden has been super slow, even for here (6000 feet elevation in the Sierra, in the shade of big jeffrey pines). Of course, strange weather years are our new normal with climate change very much upon us, so gardening has become even more an act of going with the flow, and rolling with whatever nature brings. But here’s where things are as of today in my jumble of a garden. Everything is intermixed, both because that is healthier for the garden and because I tend to just stick things wherever there is a little patch of soil available. And everything is still damp from the inch of rain we got from the artist formerly known as Hurricane Hilary. As usual, the kale is the biggest and happiest thing in the garden, and that makes Pico, the kale eater, the happiest little dog. If you are curious what anything is, feel free to ask in the comments! 💜 [images: lots of messy but happy plants. At the end, me holding a kale bunch so large that I have to tilt it down to get the whole thing in the picture, and Pico, a six lb. black mostly-Chihuahua, grabbing a nibble from the kale bouquet.]
I think I am going to do @threadsapp, y’all. I miss Twitter, and it’s close enough. Come chat over there! Same as IG: @our_nextlife. Also… After a slow start, the garden is finally starting to look like a garden. My happy place has returned. 🌿🥰🌿 [images: lots of pictures of various flowers, mushrooms and vegetables in the garden]
I'm excited to share that I'll be speaking along with @bernadebtjoy and @financiallyintentional at the inaugural @finconexpo women's event, west coast edition (there's also a great east coast edition), for writers, journalists and content creators. Is the event for you? Learn more at FinConExpo.com/WomenInMoney
Current Tahoe snow situation ☃️ (image: Mark, who did all the work to clear all this snow, standing in front of a snow bank much taller than him) #mountainlife
When @moneymag told me they were naming me one of their 50 people changing finance, I did not expect to be named alongside incredible folks like McKenzie Scott, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Lil Nas X, Bad Bunny and many more. But I'll take it! 🥂🥰✌️ Link in stories. [images: screenshots of Changemakers story on @moneymag]
The only upside of a sudden massive drop in temperatures, and the end of most of the garden, is that the house is now full of flowers. 💐 These are all from my picking frenzy on Friday, before the cold front hit. Now just waiting to see if the cold hardy vegetables like kale and broccoli will perk back up, or if the garden is totally done for the year. I’m hoping hard that some things held on! (Image: many different vases of flowers inside the house) #zone6garden #zone6b #highaltitudegardening #mountainlife
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