Maple Syrup Festival

To the chagrin of the young folk, we attended a Maple Syrup Festival today. Though it promised such delights as maple cotton candy, pancake breakfasts, candle making, and a tour of how maple syrup is made, our arrival was met with faces like this:


(The backdrop is smoke from the woodburner used to heat the syrup in production.)

The mood did not lighten, even when we found a tee-pee


On the tour we learned that 20 gallons of syrup are produced from 1000 gallons of sap.


The children (accompanied by their friend Sophia) attempted to escape, through the Maple grove by going uphill on a fallen log.

I found the festival delightful, and would happily go again. I hear the national syrup festival is only about an hour further away, and spans the next two weekends. To that, perhaps Joe and I will travel ourselves. More cotton candy for us.