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20—Lancaster Farmihgr Saturday, May 7 f 1977*
My Thoughts
And welcome to them
By JOANN* SM HB
Associate ffrfltor
Some people have ceramics elephants, marble
balls on pedestals, or even fancy lamp posts
decked out in flowers to accent their well
manicured lawns, but on the farm, we have
grape arbors adorning the yard (which I
sometimes mow, so at those times it’s more
scraggly than well manicured).
Personally, I like our choice of paraphenalia
the best.
When I was a small child, all three of the
rather large pole supports were dressed to the
hilt with grape vines. And, every Fall they
dangled the luscious, juicy purple grapes, which
I used to squeeze between my thumb and
forefinger to propel the gelled green, sweet
interior into my mouth. There's nothing that can
spoil an appetite better than sweet purple
grapes just before dinner.
The time did come, however, when the stalks
got just too old to keep producing the lavender
scrumptious jewels, and the arbors slowly
defoliated to show the heavy wire supports
underneath. .But, that didn’t daunt my spirits
any. Just like a child who finds her dream castle
in a deserted, run down old “ghost house, ” I
made the culinary misfortune into a rare find.
Although I never had ail the gymnastic
equipment like my town friends, I made up for it
with the arbors, on which I learned to “skin the
cat” and climb around. It was great - when it
came to the parallel bars in gym class, 1 led the
way.
Then came my downfall. Mother decided that
she was going to Have “something just for
pretty" growing on the arbor, and planted a
wisteria stalk. At first, it only kept me from
climbing around on one end, but then it started
to take over, and eventually pushed me right off
the arbor. Fortunately, my interest in skinning
the cat waned at the same time the wisteria got
greedy for the whole structure so we were all
happy.
And today, as I look at the peaceful, grapelike
bunches of flowers, and smell their sweet
calming scent, I’m more than glad that I had to
give up the grape arbor to the wisteria. Each
May, their beauty signals the coming of a lovely
summer-something a ceramic elephant could
never do.
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