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Mountain Stories: Pearling the Mountain, Settling the Sun

May 2, 2010 by Paula Panich

San Jacinto Mountains Idyllwild, Calif. Fern Valley 7:00 p.m. A dusky mist pearls the mountain. In the hollows of our valley walls, midnight blue stretches and spreads. Light plays along the ridgeline, peachy cottony clouds dare night to fall. Strawberry Creek runs fat and furious; San Jacinto Peak, far above us, is still cushioned by […]

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Mountain Stories: Cabin in the Woods

January 20, 2009 by Paula Panich

For exactly three years I have been spending time in Idyllwild, Calif., in the San Jacinto Mountains, above Palm Springs. It is my escape from the Los Angeles overload of traffic, people, buildings, concrete, hurry, noise, daycare-next-door, hovering helicopters, hysteria. For two-and-a-half of those years, I have rented a little cabin in the woods, near […]

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ABOUT PAULA PANICH

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-based food, garden, and landscape writer and teacher who has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica and other publications. She is author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, and other books. Her latest, The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, is a collection of memoir-ish culinary essays. Her literary work, including fiction, has been published in the Harvard Review, the North American Review, and on writing disorder, an online literary journal. She has taught writing workshops from the New York Botanical Garden to the Getty Center, and at Boston University and the UCLA Ext. Landscape Architecture Program.

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