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Dusk.
Our favorite time of the sum
mer day.
Afternoon heat subsides as the
sun slips behind the western hill,
its last lingering golden rays shin
ing off the silos roofs. A touch of
evening coolness settles in over
the meadow and lower lawn. Bare
feet sense the first touch of dew
condensing on the grass.
The heifers rouse from their late
afternoon, heat-induced rest per
iod and begin making their way up
through the pasture toward supper
silage waiting in the bunk feeder.
Most walk, but a few laggards
trot to catch up, so as not to miss
out on the first, tastiest bites of
feed. A slight cloud of dust rises
and hovers above their path, as
sets of hard hooves stir the dry
soil.
Echoes of a tractor motor
bounce through the hollow, as
mowers or hay balers return from
finishing up one last field for the
day. A few bam feeding chores re
main before The Farmer will call
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it a day. I pull a few last weeds
from the garden, gather my tools,
and with cats and dog trailing be
hind, head for the patio or pond
pier to enjoy the evening peaceful
ness.
Then, slowly at first but gather
ing momentum with each second
toward impending darkness, the
evening lights begin flashing on.
Fireflies, zillions of ’em scatter
ed out across the rolling fields of
farmland.
Those first earlybird fireflies
seems to signal the others, who
wake at dusk and rise in swarms to
flit and hover over the fields. For
whatever reason, the “lightning
bugs” as we’ve always called
them, seem drawn to the strips of
alfalfa and grain.
When the barley was ripening,
and then newly-combined, those
fields seemed to draw the greatest
concentrations -of flashes, though
the adjoinable alfalfa strips ap
peared a close second-favorite of
the sparkling insects. But in the
pastures where a few heifers still
poke around, only a small number,
by comparison, of the signals flash
on and off.
As darkness deepens, the firefly
glow seems to brighten. Our slop
ing hillside of cqntoured fields
pulsates with their constant spark
ling, like gentle showers of se
quins raining from the skies. The
clouds of fireflies do not rise and
claim the whole empty night sky,
but rather hover in a narrow layer
just a few feet above the fields.
Why this intense concentration
of fireflies over certain areas?
We’ve observed the same pheno
menon! summer after summer. Is
the air above yellow, ripe grain
fields slightly drier and warmer
than the micro-climate just above
green alfalfa, as The Farmer has
speculated? Is there some smaller
insect or mini-being in particular
that congregates to those spots,
and on which the fireflies feed? Or
do those fields harbor a particular
ly favored environment in which
the fireflies spend their days, and
that’s where they just appear when
evening coolness or degree of
darkness stirs them up into mating
flight?
If fireflies lit the skies year
round, we would probably not
even notice them after a week or
two. But the duration of their lives
is so brief and yet so brilliant, that
we are enthralled with the beauty
they add to summer’s tender eve
nings.
What time do the fireflies call it
a day? Or a night?
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Juniata Crowns Princess
MIFFLIN (Juniata) Rebecca
Ann Woodward of Mifflin, took
over the reign of Juniata County
Dairy Princess. Becky succeeded
outgoing princess, Anita Faulk
ner.
The coronation took place on
June 17, at the Walker Orange
Hall. A chicken bar-be-que dinner
was served before the pageant.
Following the dinner Becky gave
a presentation titled “A Typical
Dairy Farmer” and a skit about
“Dairy Products as Snacks,”
which she will also give when she
competes for the title of Pennsyl
vania Dairy Princess in Septem
ber.
In addition, the Promotion
Committee recognized six young
ladies as Dairy Maids, Dairy
Misses’, and ’Lil’ Misses. These
girls will aid Becky with the pro
motions throughout the county.
Serving as Becky’s aids will be
Jada Faulkner, daughter of James
and Pat Faulkner of RD2 Port
Royal; Diane Clock, daughter of
Laity and Cindy Clock of Mifflin;
Sara Hoover, daughter of Thomas
and Brenda Hoover of RD2 Port
Royal; Tara Kocher, daughter of
Nancy Kocher Toms of RR2 Mif
flintown; Danielle Mummah,
daughter of Ron and Desiree
Mummah of RR2 Port Royal; and
Ellen Woodward, daughter of
Verna Woodward Harshbarger of
Mifflin.
Rebecca (Becky) Woodward of
Mifflin, is the daughter of Roy
Woodward and Vema and Zane
Harshbarger. Becky is a graduate
of the Juniata High School where
she belonged to the Fashion Club,
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Rebecca Ann Woodward
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Club. She is a member of the Mif
flin Fire Company and served as
1992-93 alternate Juniata County
Dairy Princess. Becky’s dairy
background comes from her
grandfather’s farm in Huntingdon
County and from her stepfather’s
farm, "Scenic Hills Farm” in Juni
ata County. In addition her father,
Roy is a bulk milk truck driver. As
for Becky’s future plans, she is
unsure of what she would like to
pursue, but she is looking forward
to serving Juniata County as Dairy
Princess.
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