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SINGING IN THE GARDEN
first place with are the little cherry ones. If a tomato is
perfect enough to be competitive, it's also perfect enough
to eat. I would rather slice the five required specimens
and slather them with mayo than watch them slump to
soup at the fair.
As I wait in the entry line with my box of vegetables
balanced on one hip, I chat with friends. The banter is
friendly, but we are all secretly sizing up the competition.
However, none of us stack up to local legend Virginia Bell
who according to our extension agent, Kathy Beverage,
enters almost 500 jars of canned produce each year.
The next morning, I stand in line to drop off my floriculture
entries. I am ashamed to say that all I have to
offer are three single flower specimens propped up in pop
bottles. I watch enviously as friends carry in beautiful arrangements
made to reflect category names like " Morning
Dawn " and " Heat of the Day. " My idea of flower
arranging involves picking a handful of flowers and shoving
them into a jar.
In the evening after the parade, I hurry to the gymnasium
to see if I am still the reigning queen. I am. There
was only one other sad plate of oversized beets in the category,
but no matter: a crown is a crown. My tomatoes?
In a field of hundreds, they've been shoved to the very
back end of the table by the judges. Oh well, there's always
next year.
The intense competition at our little Highland County
fair is an important tradition that I hope never disappears.
But there's always room for a new one. Perhaps one
day, there will be a category for hopelessly ugly tomatoes
called, " I Made Sandwiches with the Rest, " or a category
for floral arrangements called " Shoved in a Jar. " I'm pretty
sure I could win one of those.
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