84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 13, 1991
On being — —
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
Joyce Bupp
Over the years, the color yellow
has gotten somewhat of an unfair
rap.
Yellow, for instance, often
marks a warning of some sort.
Highway departments have
long favored a muted, yellow-gold
shade for signs running the gamut
of directional and safety mes
sages, anything from “caution” to
“cattle crossing.” Yellow traffic
lights signal a slow down or alert
us to stop for the red that flashes
up next. And solid yellow lines
delineate on which side of the
highway we’d best drive our
vehicles.
The color also comes in for
some pretty negative connota
tions; someone perceived as less
than courageous is labeled “yel
low.” Color of a coward.
Happy celebrations bring the
red, white and blue of July 4th, the
homey reds and greens of Christ
mas, the exiting orange of Hallo
ween, and purples and pinks of
Easter. Yellow edges into the
Bee Keepers
of the “Home On The Range”
section.
The Wamplers process then
own honey by heating the liquid
that gravity feeds through a
cheesecloth for straining before
being bottled.
“Our process is slow compared
with commercial processes, but we
think it tastes better because it is
not filtered,” said Wampler.
“We love working with bees,”
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spotlight a little at Easter, but
purple overshadows it.
Yellow’s image seemed
doomed to an eternal ho-hum
state. Then along came singer
Tony Orlando belting out ‘Tie a
Yellow Ribbon ’Round the Old
Oak Tree” and gave the cheery
color a deserved image boost.
Indeed, yellow’s popularity
soared right up there with Old
Glory’s red, white and blue in
recent months. And millions of
yards of shiny yellow ribbon wove
our nation together in a bright pat
tern of patriotism to welcome
home our nation’s heroes.
I glanced out the kitchen win
dow the other day and realized
that for ages Mother Nature has
likewise been “tying yellow
’round” to welcome us back to
another growing season.
Slender, pliant branches of a
sprawling forsythia just outside
the window sway in a gentle after
noon breeze. Each waving branch
is covered with clear yellow
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Wampler said. “But with our back
problems and my allergy to smoke,
we’re going to have to quit it”
Wampler plans to buy a steer
farm where his children Ruth, 21;
Wilbur, 19; Marlin, 16; and Mel
vin, 14; will help with the heavy
work.
The Wamplers may be con
tacted at 141 N. Colebrook Rd.,
Manheim, PA 17545 or call (717)
665-4350.
blooms, perfect and long-lasting
despite die wet snow which piled
among them just days before.
Sparrows squabble among the
tangled yellow mass and a picture
perfect male cardinal perches on a
branch, stunning scarlet contrast
to the brilliance of the bush at
peak bloom.
Flowering tendrils of yellow
I dance outside the dairy barn, as a
graceful weeping willows unfurl
tiny fuzzy blooms and embryonic
leaves. Yellow only in brief transi
tion, the golden willows will soon
fade to green through days of
stronger sunshine and lengthening
light.
Daffodils dot the perennial bor
ders with random scatterings of
golden yellow, like drops of sun
shine nestled in the clusters of
spiked, green foliage. Some are of
the old-fashioned, cluster-petaled
doubles, descendants of colonies
which grew on the bank long
before our arrival on this farm.
Many are the solid yellow singles,
the “classic” daffodil.
My favorite, though, opens
creamy white petals with a dainty,
pale-yellow cup. Each cup is
deeply crimped and scalloped
edged, like miniature ballet tutus
for the mythical fairies which are
supposed to inhabit gardens.
A few brave dandelion blooms
peek out of sheltered corners,
opening wide their yellow blos
soms to soak up the warming sun
shine. Within a week or two, the
lawn will be temporarily polka
dotted with cheerful dandelion
blooms. Whether dandelions are
weeds or valuable, edible, nutri
tious, flowering plants can be hot
ly debated.
Still, none of those dandelions
now dotting the landscape is our
first of the season, having been
long beaten by a single precocious
one which flowered back in early
January. Or maybe that one was
just running way late from last
year.
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feeder are as many as ten gold
finches at a time, jostling for per
ches at the supply of oil sunflower
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from pure neon yellow to just the
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their gray winter plumage.
Once associated with cowar
dice, yellow seems much more fit
ting as a symbol of hope and wel
come and celebration.
Mother Nature just figured that
out long before some of the rest of
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