CHERRY GROWERS CELEBRATE SWEET FRUIT OF THEIR LABORS.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer The harvest of lush cherries was celebrated Saturday by a bumper crop In agriculture, a bumper crop refers to a particularly good harvest yielded for a particular crop. Example: "With all the rain we've had over the last few months, we are expecting a bumper crop this year. of horse riders, community queens, mariachi musicians and even a dog in overalls in the back of a pickup truck. Although cherries were in low supply this year, spectators with picnic blankets and lawn chairs were abundant as they lined the streets and watched the parade that kicked off the annual Leona Valley Cherry Festival. ``We love the parade,'' said Terry Rhodeside of Lancaster. ``We love that it's a small parade and that everyone seems to know each other and waves. We try and come every year.'' In most years, festivalgoers fan out to pick their own cherries for reduced prices from more than a dozen farms in the area where orchards have grown for more than 50 years. Because of warm weather earlier this year, however, most of the cherries already have ripened and been picked and sold. ``Usually, we know we can come out for a few weeks and still get some cherries,'' said Rhodeside, who came to the festival with her husband, Glenn, and their two children, Haley, 5, and Tristan 2. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if we'll pick any this year.'' She said the family looked forward, however, to visiting arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. booths at the festival. The Rhodesides said they would be looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. novelties such as ostrich ostrich, common name for a large flightless bird (Struthio camelus) of Africa and parts of SW Asia, allied to the rhea, the emu and the extinct moa. It is the largest of living birds; some males reach a height of 8 ft (244 cm) and weigh from 200 to 300 lb feathers at the booths. Michael Bridgeford of Palmdale enjoyed riding on a float and passing out candy in the parade. ``It was great,'' said Michael, 11. ``It was my first time in a parade.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1--color) Cricket Meschner, dressed as an American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. girl, rides her horse Venus in the parade. (2--color) Horses pull an old-fashioned wagon in a parade Saturday. (3--ran in SAC edition only) The Casa Gutierrez Mariachi Band performs for a festival audience. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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