"M'm! M'm! GOOD!" 🤗.....................................NORTHWEST ADVENTURES! 😀

“M’m! M’m! Good!” 🤗
When you think Maple Syrup, you usually think of Vermont!😊
In fact together Vermont, New York, and Maine, produce over 80 percent of this delicious syrup in the United States!☺️
Texas will tell you everything is “Big” in Oil Country, but the Pacific Northwest, and onward North into Canada, is home to the “Big Leaf Maple”!☺️
With leaves that can grow to 12 inches wide, these Maple trees produce some of the most Golden delicious Maple Syrup!🤗
I discovered on my hike today, that Keith my neighbor, has started “tapping” some of the Maple trees along our hiking trails!
It’s been an odd year, so I’m not sure if Keith will harvest much sap……🙄
It takes freezing nights, and warmer days, for the sap to start rising!
See that five gallons bucket in the fifth photo?
It takes 40 gallons of sap, to be able to boil away the water, and then produce one gallon of Maple syrup!🙄
Sometimes less than a gallon of syrup!😮
With only the last three or four nights below freezing for the entire winter, maple syrup might be a bit challenging this year!🙄
“Keith, when you start boiling sap, if you need a taste tester, I’ll bring up some pancakes, and check and see if your Maple Syrup is any good Lol!”😇
“Suddenly Liz, I’m feeling hungry Lol!”🥰
Till tomorrow Silvertop Mike 😊