| When I was teaching, February vacation was the time when
my colleagues who were in the maple syrup production business did not
really get a vacation. It was time for them to get out the sap buckets
and run the lines for collecting sap from the maple trees. If the sap
had begun to run, instead of preparing lessons at night, they were
tending the fires, boiling the sap all night. If the nights were cold,
but the days not warm enough to stimulate the flow, then they waited in
anticipation for that first run of the season. By early March their
buckets would begin to collect the drops of sap. Warm days and cold
nights are the perfect conditions for sap flow. This combination also
produces early morning fog, a perfect setting for this particular
photograph. |
