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To supper at last the farmer goes.
The apples are pared, the paper read,
The stories are told, then all to bed.
Without, the crickets' ceaseless song
Makes shrill the silence all night long;
The heavy dews are falling.
The housewife's hand has turned the lock;
Drowsily ticks the kitchen clock;
The household sinks to deep repose;
But still in sleep the farm-boy goes.
Singing, calling,—
"Co', boss! co', boss! co'! co'! co'!"
And oft the milkmaid, in her dreams,
Drums in the pail with the flashing streams,
Murmuring, "So, boss! so!"
J.T.
Trowbridge, Farm Yard Song
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Barbie continues, "In fact, that is exactly
how I managed to get the Rwanda Project up and running. That and finding
the knack for gently steering rather than mandating change. (Will you
put a plug in the newsletter for Women
for Women International? So far to date, the Rwanda Project has help
over 5,000 women affecting approximately 21,000 extended family members.)
In fact, I was just thinking back to January of 1998 and how impossible
the task seemed. But, I realized then that the real trick was to gather
resources and direct the flow of events towards a noble goal." -
B. Eberhart
Every
day is new. Support your local pet shelter where you will find dogs and
cats in need of a new beginning.
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Of an Orchard by Katherine Tynan Hinkson [1861-1931]
Good is an Orchard, the Saint saith,
To meditate on life and death,
With a cool well, a hive of bees,
A hermit's grot below the trees.
Good is an Orchard: very good,
Though one should wear no monkish hood.
Right good, when Spring awakes her flute,
And good in yellowing time of fruit.
Very good in the grass to lie
And see the network 'gainst the sky,
A living lace of blue and green,
And boughs that let the gold between.
The bees are types of souls that dwell
With honey in a quiet cell;
The ripe fruit figures goldenly
The soul's perfection in God's eye.
Prayer and praise in a country home,
Honey and fruit: a man might come,
Fed on such meats, to walk abroad,
And in his Orchard talk with God.
Source: The Home Book of Verse, Volume 3 [Etext #2621]
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Kittitas County, Washington - Orchard and Farm View
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Martin
Johnson Heade's Apple Blossoms and Hummingbird,
1871, oil on canvas. Addison Museum of American Art.
Martin
Johnson Heade's Apple Blossoms in a Vase, 1867, oil on artist's board.
Private Collection.
Martin
Johnson Heade's Cluster of Apple Blossoms, c. 1870, oil on artist's
board, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schwehm.
Martin
Johnson Heade's Still Life with Apple Blossoms in Nautilus Shell,
1870 Oil on Canvas. Private Collection. More at: www.jograham.com/heade.htm
Vincent
Van Gogh, Blossoming Pear Tree, Arles, April, 1888, Amsterdam, Van
Gogh Museum.
Vincent
Van Gogh, La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom, Arles, April, 1889,
London, Courtauld Institute Galleries.
Vinicent
Van Gogh, Orchard in Blossom, Arles, April, 1888, Amsterdam, Van Gogh
Museum.
Vincent
Van Gogh, Orchard in Blossom with View of Arles, Arles, April 1889,
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek.
Vincent
Van Gogh, Orchard in Blossom, Arles, April, 1888, Switzerland, private
collection.
Vincent
Van Gogh, Orchard in Blossom Bordered by Cypresses, Arles, April,
1888, Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum.
Vincent
Van Gogh, Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve), Arles,
March, 1888, Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum.
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Month
of March and April
Featured Recipe
Butterscotch Applesauce
Bars
Makes a quick afternoon snack, delicious served
with tea! - ce
1/4 c. vegetable oil
1 c. dark brown sugar
1/2 c. applesauce
1/2 tsp. vanilla
3/4 c. whole wheat flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 c. oatmeal
1/4. c. shredded coconut
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Mix oil, brown sugar, applesauce and vanilla. Stir
in flour, baking powder and oatmeal. Pour into greased 8"x8"
pan. Sprinkle coconut over top. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until
browned and coconut is toasted on top. Remove from oven, cut into
bars.
For more fruit
and cookie recipes see the FruitFromWashington.com Cookies
recipes page.
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Special
Days in March 2006
|• Ash
Wednesday - Wednesday, March 1, 2006
• International
Women's Day - Wednesday, March 8, 2006
• Ides
of March - Wednesday, March 8, 2006
• St.
Patrick's Day - Friday, March 17, 2006
• First
Day of Spring - Monday, March 20, 2006
• National
Cherry Blossom Festival Starts - Saturday, March 25, 2006
Special
Days in April 2006
• April
Fools Day - April 1, 2006
• Daylight Savings Begins - Sunday, April 2, 2006
• Scottish
Tartan Day - Thursday, April 6, 2006
• Passover
Begins - Wednesday, April 12, 2006
• Tax
Day - Saturday, April 15, 2006
• Easter
- Sunday, April 16, 2006 •
Earth
Day - Saturday, April 22, 2006
• Holocaust
Remembrance Day - Tuesday, April 25, 2006
• National
Secretaries' Day - Wednesday, April 26, 2006
• National
Arbor Day - Friday, April 28, 2006
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Good Company by Karle Wilson Baker
To-day I have grown taller from walking with the
trees,
The seven sister-poplars who go softly in a line;
And I think my heart is whiter for its parley with a star
That trembled out at nightfall and hung above the pine.
The call-note of a redbird from the cedars in the dusk
Woke his happy mate within me to an answer free and fine;
And a sudden angel beckoned from a column of blue smoke -
Lord, who am I that they should stoop - these holy folk of thine?
Source: The Home Book of Verse, Volume 3 Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson
[Etext
#2621]
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The
FruitFromWashington.com
Archive Feature of the Month
ARC Identifier: 516284 "YOUR VICTORY GARDEN COUNTS MORE
THAN EVER!" , 1941 - 1945 Still Picture Records LICON,
Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National
Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College
Park, MD |
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about Victory Gardens |
Title: Most farms have
home gardens and people here produce as much as they
can for home use. Tending the garden is often the housewife's
job. - 05/07/1941, Shelby County, Iowa |
ARC Identifier: 522476
Creator: Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics. Division of Economic Information. (ca. 1922 -
ca. 1953) Item from Record Group 83: Records of the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, 1876 - 1959 Location: Still Picture
Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division
(NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi
Road, College Park, MD
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The FruitFromWashington Archive Feature
metaphorically blows the dust off of an image or document from our
past and brings it to the light of day for a new audience to see.
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In recognition of Arbor
Day, here is the complete text of "The
Planting of the Apple-Tree" by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).
From the foreward to this poem in "Poems Every Child Should
Know, The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library: "The Planting
of the Apple-Tree" has become a favourite for "Arbour Day" exercises.
The planting of trees as against their destruction is a vital point
in our political and national welfare.
Come, let us plant the apple-tree.
Cleave the tough greensward with the spade;
Wide let its hollow bed be made;
There gently lay the roots, and there
Sift the dark mould with kindly care,
And press it o'er them tenderly,
As round the sleeping infant's feet
We softly fold the cradle sheet;
So plant we the apple-tree.
What plant we in this apple-tree?
Buds, which the breath of summer days
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays;
Boughs where the thrush, with crimson breast,
Shall haunt, and sing, and hide her nest;
We plant, upon the sunny lea,
A shadow for the noontide hour,
A shelter from the summer shower,
When we plant the apple-tree.
What plant we in this apple-tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery springs,
To load the May wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,
For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,
We plant with the apple-tree.
What plant we in this apple-tree?
Fruits that shall swell in sunny June,
And redden in the August noon,
And drop, when gentle airs come by,
That fan the blue September sky,
While children come, with cries of glee,
And seek them where the fragrant grass
Betrays their bed to those who pass,
At the foot of the apple-tree.
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And when, above this apple-tree,
The winter stars are quivering bright,
The winds go howling through the night,
Girls, whose eyes o'erflow with mirth,
Shall peel its fruit by cottage hearth,
And guests in prouder homes shall see,
Heaped with the grape of Cintra's vine,
And golden orange of the line,
The fruit of the apple-tree.
The fruitage of this apple-tree,
Winds and our flag of stripe and star
Shall bear to coasts that lie afar,
Where men shall wonder at the view,
And ask in what fair groves they grew;
And sojourners beyond the sea
Shall think of childhood's careless day,
And long, long hours of summer play,
In the shade of the apple-tree.
Each year shall give this apple-tree
A broader flush of roseate bloom,
A deeper maze of verdurous gloom,
And loosen, when the frost-clouds lower,
The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower.
The years shall come and pass, but we
Shall hear no longer, where we lie,
The summer's songs, the autumn's sigh,
In the boughs of the apple-tree.
And time shall waste this apple-tree.
Oh, when its aged branches throw
Thin shadows on the ground below,
Shall fraud and force and iron will
Oppress the weak and helpless still!
What shall the tasks of mercy be,
Amid the toils, the strifes, the tears
Of those who live when length of years
Is wasting this apple-tree?
"Who planted this old apple-tree?"
The children of that distant day
Thus to some aged man shall say;
And, gazing on its mossy stem,
The gray-haired man shall answer them:
"A poet of the land was he,
Born in the rude but good old times;
'Tis said he made some quaint old rhymes
On planting the apple-tree."
- William Cullen Bryant
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March
is typically an unsettled month. A note arrived from Grandpa Dee
in early March that told us, "The day was sunny and warm, but
the weather has gone south today. 