Not a bad spot to have breakfast on a lovely sunny Spring day in VT!
Afterwards we took a stroll up the hill to the Shelburne Farms sugar shack
The view looking back - you can just about make out Mt Mansfield and Camel's Hump on either side of the farm building (note the absence of any clouds whatsoever!)
Almost there... Jayne was puffing nicely at this point! ;)
We passed a trusty John Deere, complete with snow chains on it's back wheels!
Here they mostly use the piping we'd seen at other places to collect the maple sap, but Shelburne Farms, being the educational center that it is, also has 50 or so trees tapped directly into buckets to demonstrate the more traditional techniques.
Peeking under the cover of a bucket we could see that the sap was indeed starting to run as the morning's temperatures started to rise. About 10 attempts later Jayne managed to catch an in-focus drip of sap coming off the tap in the maple trunk and into the bucket below.
Inside Shelburne's sugar shack
Outside the sugar shack
The sap lines
Finally the sap makes it to the sugar shack
Adam and Saf
Jayne, Bump and Saf
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