We started tapping trees Friday. Or rather, we tried to start tapping Friday. We headed up to the woods on Friday afternoon in high spirits. Unfortunately, we don't have something as easy as an accessible sugar bush. We just use different parts of the woods where there is a cluster of maples. One of the best patches in almost a half mile or mile back in the woods. And this year, there is about 3 feet of snow everywhere. The tractor tried, but it didn't succeed. We had a wading-through-snow walk home in the evening light and decided to not tap those particular trees. At least not right now. It was a beautiful, springy kind of evening though, so all was not lost.
Dogs following us
Orianna making shadows
Our snow shadows
Getting into the deep snow
Our fearless captain
The way snow drifts around a tree
The stuck tractor
Walking home
Crusty snow
Curving weed
Sunlight on our trail
Coming out of the woods
Winter fields
The other tractor on its way to pull out the stuck tractor
Tractor tire tracks
Penny-kins
Shop sunlight
Last summers thistles
3 comments:
Beautiful Pictures. Love the old car next to the barn!! Such a beautiful time of the year. The sun is stronger and casts such pretty shadows on everything!
I totes took a lot of these. I love the one of the sunny dogs at the beginning.
I'm still sad we didn't get to do any sugaring this year.
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