Hello all! Well, not actually Rocky Mountain High. I mean Mama is a very old FRIEND OF JOHN DENVER, the Rocky Mountain king. But this mountain, I mean the mountain was very high! Like 6,285 feet, or some crazy number, and very rocky. I have never had such a NATURAL HIGH IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. First Merlin and I got to run around in the mountain meadow at the bottom of the mountain. You can see that EVERYONE IS PANTING IN THIS PICTURE TAKEN BY PAPA. Then Mama, she drove up, and up, and up and yikes I mean I was getting dizzy. I thought it would NEVER END!! But it did. The trees were so beautifully decked in yellow, and orange and red LIKE THEY WERE GOING TO THE PROM OR SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW. Anyway, we watched the trees change, and the little green fuzzy stuff I think they were called LICHENS OR SOMETHING, take over the mountain and then ALL OF A SUDDEN OUT OF THE BLUE, THE SKY BURST FORTH LIKE LIGHT THAT WAS FLOODING OUR LITTLE HEARTS. It was so blue the sky this day. And once we were no longer SHELTERED, AND I MEAN SHELTERED, by forest on either side of this LONG AND WINDING ROAD, the expanse into the eastern horizon OPENED UP LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. It was as if LIGHT AND JOY WAS A THING THAT COULD BE TOUCHED AS IT FLOODED IN, SURROUNDING US and all we could do IS STOP, PAUSE, LOOK, AND BE PRESENT IN THIS INCREDIBLE PLACE. It seemed like hours to the top but in reality only one half hour had passed. We got out of our truck pulled out the sitting chairs, faced the eastern horizon mountain range that was glorious it its palette of every shade of gold, red, yellow, orange and we all sat down and had our picnic. DID YOU KNOW THAT MAMA LOVES PICNICS? She could tell you about a few interesting places that she and Papa have had picnics. Her personal favorite is having a picnic in Baltimore Maryland in the cemetery where Edgar Allen Poe is buried. Ask her to tell the story some day. Anyway, once we were done with lunch we went EXPLORING UP TO THE VERY TOP. It was very cool and we met some really nice people. Now the first person who approached us, because of course Mama was carrying LITTLE O'L ME up the last flight of stairs to the top was Chris. You can see him with me here. He told us all about his girlfriend who had a doxie who was a short haired red. He was originally from Connecticut but currently lives in Boston. He said it was one of the things about doxies, that once you pick them up they just melt in your arms. They are so sweet. It was so VERY COOL how many people talked to us about their dogs this day. So many of them had such great stories about their doxies. What is it about dogs that no matter who you are, COMPLETE STRANGERS, I MEAN COMPLETE STRANGERS WILL WALK RIGHT UP AND TALK TO YOU LIKE YOU ARE A LONG LOST RELATIVE, AND IN SOME WAYS, I GUESS ALL DOG OWNERS ARE RELATED. Here is a picture of me and Danny. He was so cute and was only two years old. . I wanted to KISS HIM ALL OVER. I AM DEFINITELY GIVING HIM THE EYE! His parents said he LOVED DOGS and the keys hanging from Mama's lanyard. Chris and his family were from Rhode Island. We were truly having a ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH EXPERIENCE! And so, Dharma's Do's? Do know that DOG LOVER'S ARE EVERYWHERE!! EMBRACE THE LOVE! Special thanks to Danny and his family and Chris for letting us use their pictures. Have a great day and thanks for checking in!! Me and Mama and the Mt. Washington Train. Here is little old windswept me. Just enjoying the breeze. DHARMA HUGS!!
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Jeff Sommers
10/11/2018 07:38:38 pm
Glad all of you had fun at mount Washington. Wish when we where kids ( me and heather) had that great view of the moutains. All and all great story.
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