How Sweet it is.
>> 24.2.09
$1 bought you an all day maple-sugar buzz at the Caraval last weekend.This morning I thought, enough is enough! I try not to wish away a day, a moment or experience - but I would be totally ok with winter packing up and making room for spring. Bring me sunshine and warms breezes, tulip bulbs bursting and one less layer of clothing, open toed shoes and bronzed shoulders...I am so ready.
However, winter looks like it will be kicking around for a little while longer, so I might as well enjoy it and think about all its chilly goodness:
- Cozying up while it snows outside
- The heart racing satisfaction of shoveling a snowy walkway
- Feeling your body - nose, toes and ear lobes - dethaw after coming in from the cold
And all the snow makes a perfect mold for maple syrup on a chilly Carnaval day. There is nothing like hot maple syrup chilling on a bed of fresh snow to make you feel Canadian - eh?
2 comments:
Wow, you just eat the maple syrup right out of the little pot? Or do you put it on something? I have never heard of this before!
Hi Dionne!
When the trees are tapped in February/March-ish and the sap is boiled down into syrup, it is kind of tradition around here to pour the fresh hot syrup right onto the snow so it hardens into amazing candy! Some people get a popsicle stick and roll it up off the snow onto the stick like taffy.
And sometimes they will even let it cool down just enough so it can be poured into your hands and you can pretty much drink it!
Cheers!
L.
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