golden spring

As the sun's rays come closer to the earth and the sun on our faces feels that much warmer, and as the little boy stirs in my belly, I feel new creative juices flowing. So many new ideas for things to create, to sew for the shop (oh, so little time!) And around us, the life sap of the trees is flowing too. Oh the wonderful sweet sap.

Is this inspiration spontaneous and spur of the moment? Or is it the fruition of ideas and thoughts that have been brewing and formulating all winter long? Just like the plants and trees that build energy through the winter, preparing for the spring?

For the first time this year I thought of the sap time as being connected to the fertility of nature, to the cycles of life & energy.

There's a wonderful place to visit within the Greenbelt of Ottawa, called Old Log Farm. Lots of great hiking trails, a log house + farm built in 1854 to explore, and old school bucket maple tree taps that children can help with, using buckets to collect the dripping sap.

 

Maple syrup is so precious - seeing each drop of sap drip into your pail, and then seeing how 40 gallons are boiled down to just one... just one gallon of beautiful golden liquid.... makes you really appreciate it.