Sugaring off in Maine - Maple Syrup Weekend.

 You could smell the maple syrup sugaring off even as you saw this welcoming sign

This is the tubing that is strung between trees and the maple sap is suctioned through it into a collecting vat.  We passed a maple stand of trees that was still strung with tubing, but at 35mph one does not get such a good picture taken of the event.

 this is the collecting tank

 A building on the property in back of the sugaring off vat building.

 sugaring off in a stainless steel vat.  At the sugar camp in Somerset county Pennsylvania, they were using a large cast  iron cauldron with a wood fire under it to sugar off - things have sure become streamlined these days.

 spinning maple cotton candy - a new one on me.

 Ah the goodies you can buy .................and eat.

 Whooppee pies - in Pennsylvania we called them Gobs.

 Maple Syrup = Nectar of the Gods of Pancake and Waffle breakfast time.

 We know we have arrived.............the welcome sign.

 Farmland near the sugar campl

A rusted roof.  We have tin roofs in Australia that always sport rust.  They are called Galvanized Iron roofs and they have to be painted every year or so.  This one does not look like it has ever been painted with iron oxide paint like my father used.  I often tease my uncle about the roofs in Australia coming pre-rusted - saves time rusting after they are put up.

We had a good day today.  No gloom hanging over us from the re-works and it was sunny and warm into the bargain.