March warms up

We had a free afternoon and went up to the reservoir near our house. It was still covered in a thick layer of ice. I had thought it would be melted, but it's shady up there.
We saw some salamanders in the water. Lily and Rob stepped in the ice cold water until their feet cramped.





















Georgia and I stayed on the shore.




Gathering ice to break into diamonds.




Then we went to NMH farm because it felt too light out to go home.
We bought some maple syrup and some maple ice cream

















Then we got to see them cleaning out and putting away all the syrup buckets. We couldn't believe it! The season was already over?!

We were told that once the trees bud, the sap stops running.
I was disappointed I hadn't sampled more sweet cool sap from the buckets around town, but I was glad to witness the silver buckets and lids lovingly cleaned and put away until next year.