Brace yourselves.
This is the week of the "big"
snow.
Despite the fact that there
are many years of negligible-or
no-snow that falls on the Farm
Show, history and tradition have
combined to establish this week
as the legendary one of blizzard
horror tales. Of course, every
now and then, as it did a couple
of years ago, we do get the
proverbial "big one" to keep the
tradition alive, a major weather
event which snowbounds
exhibitors in Harrisburg and the
rest of us at home.
After all, though, it is
January and the weather odds
are against sunny, balmy and 60
degree-temperatures. Though
that's been known to play dur
ing Farm Show week, too.
"I hate snow," was a thought
included in a recent message
from a good friend. A fellow
dairy producer, she may dread
the extra work and mess that
snow brings to handling cattle
and moving machinery and feed.
Despite that extra hassle, I still
like snow. Well, most of the time,
anyway.
Snow turns the drab, dreary,
tired look of the countryside into
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a picturesque, greeting-card-like
setting, adding a fantasy touch
to the most ordinary and mun
dane of things.
Few scenes are more delight
ful to the eye than a deep-green
pine tree frosted with fluffy
white snow-icing on every nee
dle, every branch. Tuck a bril
liant red cardinal or a sky-col
ored blue jay out onto the end of
one of the limbs and the strik
ing picture is more beautiful
than anything man could
design.
Snow drapes fluffy accents
over the split-rail fence around
the yard and tops each post with
a whimsical white cap. It covers
the pile of leaves lingering in a
corner of the yard and tidies up
the scruffy look of the perennial
border. And, clumps of old, dried
weeds are transformed to dainty
bouquets of lacy loveliness.
Against the white backdrop
of snow, every tree in the wood
lot stands out with greater indi
viduality and prominence.
Fallen trunks and old logs, once
lost among the landscape of win
try browns and blacks, interject
horizontal and angular lines
across the vertical visual effect
of the stand of dormant hard-
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woods,
This whiteness further
enhances anything of color to
cross its stage; the rusty red of a
hunting fox, the dusty brown of
a grazing deer, flashes of color
from winter birds, even the
bright hues of the tractor and
equipment being shuttled
around on daily feeding and
cleanup chores.
The pounds take on a new
dimension, their sparkling
waters stilled beneath a silent
crust of frosty, opaque ice.
Strange tracks criss-crossee the
ice last week, faintly resembling
from a distance a series of rail
road tracks. Near as I can guess,
the tracks were made by our
lone Canada goose that lingers
here. The rows of faint, indis
cernible prints must have come
from the bird tracking across on
the ice while it was slushy, and
bits of snow settling later into
each tiny, shallow depression.
That single goose, by the way,
has adopted the cows as it
"flock," spending most of its time
with our bovine bunch. When
they hang around the feedlot, so
does the goose. When we put
them out to graze, as we did
until the snow stopped our pas
turing of the fields of oats and
rye cover, the goose nibbled at
the grasses right along with the
cows.
After a day or two, the fanta
sy prettiness of pristine snow
deteriorates into messes of mud,
patches of slippery or lumpy ice,
hard-packed piles that must be
negotiated around, and endless
tracks dirtying the kitchen floor.
At that point, I shared my
friend's distaste for snow.
So we dream ahead of spring
and green grass. And figure
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Pictured left to right are Solanco FFA members Jim
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Robert Lowery, Britina Robinson, and Jim Kerr, who
attended the National FFA Convention in Kansas City- Not
in photo: Sara Strickler.
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Sara Strickler, Justine Hill,
Jessica Schmidt, Dwayne
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