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It's maple syrup season here in Winneshiek County! Sugar maples trees here are tapped every spring to collect their sweet sap that is then boiled down into the tastiest syrup and treats you can imagine!
I thought it was rather cool. I went on a tour at DIsney's Animal Kingdom and they served lunch in this pail.
- for sale in a pail at West Dean Gardens
- too hot to take a bunch home in the car but I took a photo for Saturday Self-Challenge: all over
thank you for your visits
You can’t beat an old receptacle, so here are two for you to enjoy.
Found hiding in the corner of the kitchen at the Weald and Downland museum.
I helped some of our staff put sap pails on sugar maple trees here at Walden Pond today. These trees have been tapped to make pure maple syrup for many generations and we are continuing that traditional style of maple sugaring. We tapped 200 sugar maple trees and can expect from 10 to 15 gallons of sap per pail over the sugaring season's run. When the sap is boiled down, the yield from this sugarbush should be from 50 to 75 gallons of maple syrup. This is the least amount of snow we've ever had on the ground at the start of maple sugaring.
The Bradley family settled on Lake Ontario in Clarkson in the early 1800s. It is now a public museum. Their estate was in the middle of a maple grove, so one of the things the family produced was maple syrup. These pails, on the outside wall of the barn, are probably newer ones (no rusty holes) and the public is invited to tap syrup in the spring, To me, the pails look like art installation, especially with the shadows and contrast with rough wood planks.
this was taken a few months back. I should sit down with the Bears and take some more shots.
Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday
Drama in the sky, drama in mountains.. drama everywhere!
The Na Pail coastline on Kauai is stunning rising up to 1200m high (4000'). The waterfall in the middle of the shot was a single drop and only run when there is immediate rainfall as it is mostly rock.
Shot from the cruise ship and the cloud cover was almost complete. The dehaze slide in Lightroom does amazing things to shots like this and really brought out the sun rays.
The Na Pail coastline on Kauai is stunning during overcast/rainy conditions. The sun beams shining through the clouds were very dramatic. The mountains rise about 1200m high (4000 feet) so it gives a sense of scale for the storm clouds
Shot from the Pride of America cruise ship during a sail past.
Made web at top of garbage can. The sunlight is just hitting spider and web with a total black background from black empty garbage pail.
The Na Pail coastline on Kauai is stunning during overcast/raining conditions. Two waterfalls in this shot (middle and far left). I imagine that they don't last very long after rain hits.
Shot from the Pride of America cruise ship during a sail past.
A tired, worn out barn near my boyhood hometown now sits vacant during the late fall surrounded by acres of harvested corn fields. The “temporary” handiwork of a past farmer is illustrated by the patched roof, fading siding and uncovered openings on a couple of barn levels.
What caught my eye were the two pails on the ground near the open entrance on the front left. Though most city folks would drive by them without a glance, to me they brought back memories of countless morning and evening chores when I would use an aluminum scoop shovel to fill pails like this with ground corn out of our cement floor feed room and grab one pail in each hand and carry them about 20 yards through the barn into a small feed lot and dump them in wooden feeding troughs my dad built for the cattle to use as their dinner tables.
At the age of 10, the pails were heavy and cumbersome and by the time I had made my required eight or ten trips back and forth, my back would ache and my muscles threatened to go on strike. But in a few short years, my young man’s body began to muscle out and though I didn’t enjoy the labor each day, it was no longer a struggle physically to carry feed like this.
My recollection of the origin of these pails is hazy although a few were originally full of grease or other chemicals. Some were galvanized gray while others wore colors of deep blue, black or an occasional white and they were all old. During my formulative work years, none of the pails were plastic as tin ruled the day. Some pails had a wooden handle to make it easier on your hands to carry but years of use wore most of the wood away and left the remaining wire handles to do a job on tender hands.
Nearly every old farm kid I talk to has similar recollections of equipment they used to do their chores. Most of the farmers back in the 1950s were not very mechanized in their barn operations and depended on their resident labor force to keep it and the rest of the farm running smoothly.
(Photographed near Avoca, MN)