Ah Sugar Sugar....

Today while I was out for a walk I noticed all the maple sugar tins hanging from the maple sugar trees. I had taken my camera so here's a shot of what the tins hanging from the trees looks like.


Just down the road from this stand of trees, there's a farm that also has maple sugar collecting canisters up. BUT this farm uses plastic "mud-bucket" type collection containers.

I don't know but something just doesn't seem authentic when you see plastic 5 gallon buckets hanging from a tree collecting sap. There's a majesty to the old rusty tins juxtaposed with new shiny ones. The mysticism in maple sugaring is the tradition and the art of collection.

Plastic containers never say "art" to me. Just sayin'....