blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit

blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit
By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Buckets on the bark

The geese are back, the sap is rising, the belated sugar harvest is in full swing. Yesterday we walked to our local Sugar Bush in Richelieu Park, Vanier, at the end of the Avenue des Pères Blancs to see the sap dripping into the traditional pails attached to the tree trunks for that purpose. Maple syrup results, though you have to reduce it by evaporation to about forty times its original consistency before it acquires its distinctive taste and can be bottled.

Today Sue and I drove to Perth where at Riverguild on Gore Street we came across an exhibition of black and white pictures by Franc von Oort, a Dutch immigrant from Soest who has lived near Perth since 1987. He is an artist who appreciates the inticracies of trees. (We have one of his etchings at home.)

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