Photo of the Day

No. 471

…chances are, you don’t like slush.

Grandma Moses, Sugaring Off, 1943. ‘Sugaring off’ is the boiling down of maple sap and traditionally is a social occasion.

Frozen hard in the morning; a cold, dirty soup in the afternoon.

But, for families with a nice stand of sugar maple trees [a “sugar bush”], late February’s slush is Nature’s signal to get to work.