Green is one of my favorite
colors.
Under the right circumstances.
Not when it’s in the form of the
green spots that recently turned up
(Hi the bottom side of a pack of
cheese playing hide-n-seek in the
refrigerator, forgotten behind
some of the other residents there.
While fine cheeses need mold
action to ripen and grow flavorful,
this was not that flavoring sort of
growth.
And not the green which
gathers around the bathtub drain,
testimony to the abundant mineral
content of our home-grown varie
ty of water. Occasionally, when
the green becomes too entrenched,
I borrow some milk pipeline
cleaning materials from the dairy
bam for an anti-greenery attack.
Nor is green a favored color
when it starts taking over the pond
during summer’s worst heat
(remember summer heat?). On the
plus side, however, the fish do
find that green a cooling and sec
retive place under which to hide.
But what’s appeared on the
roadside bank after each snow
melt, visible through the front
door window from the office desk,
is the most beautiful color imagin-
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able in mid-February.
Green. Grass green.
That roadbank has a southern
exposure. So. even as the moun
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these last several weeks by the
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of new grass have pushed through
the flattened, brown stems which
linger. Encouraged by a warm
afternoon or two, a large section
of the bank has responded with a
heartwarming patch of vibrant,
living color.
Green.
After the second round of snow
and ice avalanched off the roofs—
first the house and then the back
porch roof—and deposited a mini
glacier off the edge of the base
ment porch, we supposed it would
be mid-April before we would
ever see the grass there. I did chip
and shovel out a narrow path and
enough clearance to open the
greenhouse door just enough to
slip through. But, hey, we figured
time and temperatures could taw*.
care of the rest.
One recent day as I was enroute
to water the plants, tiny fingers of
growth poking through the matted
maple leaves and fallout from the
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Jonelle Smith Completes Reign
As New York Dairy Princess
SYRACUSE. N.Y. After
dedicating a year to promoting
milk and dairy products, 1995-96
New York State Dairy Princess
Jonelle Smith will complete her
reign on Tuesday, February 20.
On behalf of the American Dairy
Green.
On hands and knees. I gently
unfolded (me of the tiny bits of
foliage pushing aside the dead,
brownish residue to see what was
so courageously sprouting. Dan
delion leaves.
Don’t laugh. They’re green.
Inside tire greenhouse, other
weeds are responding to our
slowly—lengthening days and
that ever-so-slightly-more friend
liness and warmth of the sun. Run
ners of duckweed are crawling
out over the edf,e of a couple of
pots of various acti. Two impa
tients have sprouted at the foot of
a crown-of-thoms plant A tuft of
grass is merrily growing smack
dab in the middle of a Boston fern.
And the daffodil and tulip bulbs
which were never planted out—
due to last fall’s early, inhospit
able cold and wet—are regenerat
ing green growth out their dps.
This upcoming week is the one
in which we generally salute the
color red—with hearts, roses, etc.
But, for us plant and gardening
lovers, the color our hearts pine
for is that of regrowth and
renewal.
Green.
Come to think of it, though,
while we’re awaiting the green,
celebrating this v eck of red with a
bit of brown—chocolate candy
brown, that is—would help make
the wait a little sweeter and more
tolerable...
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Lancaster Punting, 9»turday, February 10,1M0-B3'
Association and Dairy Council,
Inc. (ADADC), Smith traveled
over 10,000 miles to participate in
mote than ISO promotions.
As the 1995 state pageant
speech winner. Smith captivated
audiences of all ages with her in
teractive presentation about the
nutritional value, versatility, and
need for dairy products in every
one’s diet As state dairy princess,
she reached almost 4,000 children
and adults by presenting her
school program 100 times at 21
events including:
• National Milk Bottler’s Con
vention, Saratoga Springs, NY
• Dairy Day at the New York
State Fair, Syracuse, NY
• Pyramid Mall Kid’s Club
Dairy Day, Ithaca. NY
• Dry den Dairy Days, Dryden,
NY
• Milk Marketing, Inc., Board
of Director Meeting. Sayre, PA
• Elementary Schools: Cort
land, Homer, McGraw and Cinn
cinatus, NY.
Working with the media is one
of the many goals of the Dairy
Princess Program. Taking the
positive milk message across the
state, Smith worked with the
broadcast media more than 14
times throughout the year.
She appeared on three of the
four Syracuse television stations
and WUTR-TV in Utica, and
could have been heard on radio
stations such as WKRT-AM of
Cortland, WMCR-AM/FM of
Oneida, and WXHC-FM of
Homer. In addition, Smith re
corded public service announce
ments and was interviewed by the
Ag Radio Network, which is
broadcast on over 300 affiliate sta
tions across the Northeast
In addition to presenting her
school program and broadcasting
milk messages through the media.
Smith made numerous appear
ances at a variety of special
events, including:
• Olympic Torch “Run for ’96,”
Buffalo and Albany, NY
• ADADC “Shake It Up With
Milk” Contest. New York City,
NY
• National All-Jersey, Inc. Con
vention, Albany, NY
• "Got Milk?” Coronation Ice
Show, Lake Placid, NY
• ADADC “Santa’s Milk and
Cookie De-Stress Express,” Syra
cuse, NY
• NYS Holstein Association
Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY
Smith is thankful to all die dairy
fanners and ADADC for a suc
cessful year of dairy promotion.
“Serving as the New York State
Dairy Princess has been an oppor
tunity of a lifetime! This year has
been full of exciting events where
I have met many fantastic people
and have been able to spread posi
tive messages about our wonder
ful dairy industry and the products
that we are producing,” Smith
says.
Smith is the 19-year-old daugh
ter of John and Beatrice Smith of
Cincinnatus, New York. The
youngest of five children, she
grew up on a 400-acre dairy farm
where they milk 63 Holsteins.
Smith studies music education
at Nazareth College in Rochester,
N.Y., where she is a member of
the Women’s Volleyball team, the
Nazareth Choir, and the Spanish
Club Cervantes. Receiving a 4.0
during her fall semester, Smith
was named to the Dean’s List and
a 1995-96 Collegiate All-Ameri
can Scholar, a national academic
awards program.