Spring cleaning
Rain yesterday, then snow, but big wet flakes that stacked two inches high on the back porch rail, and didn't accumulate much on the ground at all... What pioneers used to call a Sugar Snow, because it signaled the spring rising of the sap in the maples, and so, time to tap them to make syrup and maple sugar. I learned about this from Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was there. (LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS.) I don't think the big maple out front is a sugar maple, though. I was looking around my... Sign in to see full entry.