It’s time for maple syrup up here in the north.  The trees were tapped when I got here three weeks ago, but I haven’t made time to share the photos with you.  So since it’s my first rainy day here, and I’m inside baking cookies and reading a really good book, recommended to me by my “host” family, I’ll pause and let you see a couple of them.

The first pictures are from  just up the road, taken when I went for my walk into the quiet woods.

I loved the way the sun shone through the red buckets.

And these are from further away.  I noticed them during a drive with my husband and went back with the camera.

It seemed like there were acres of trees with white buckets.

I’d like to find someone actually cooking the syrup so I could see how that works.  But so far I haven’t worked up enough courage to ask a stranger if I can watch, and I’ve only seen a couple places where I thought that might be happening.

Bloggers need more courage to investigate interesting places.  Otherwise how can we share it all with you?