Sugar Bush: the Spring Concert has Begun!
The Facebook stories are popping up everywhere—lyrical and full of awe—as neighbors who are lucky enough to have access to Maple trees trek through deep snow to set up tap buckets, collect the sap and begin the long process of boiling the sap down to syrup. It’s one of the most revered and delicious local rites of spring!
“By the time we’re done setting them up, the first bucket is already singing a different tune, the plink of another drop into the half inch of sap. All day long they change pitch as the buckets fill, like water glasses of different pitch. Plink, ploink, plonk—the tin buckets and their tops reverberate with every drop and the yard is singing. This is spring music as surely as the cardinal’s insistent whistle.”