March 30, 2015

In Governor Nelson State Park today, the weather was ideal.

... 55° and gently overcast...

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None of the burdens of excessive sun and warmth...

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Taps were stuck in maple trees...

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A fingertip gathers a drop. Taste it!

21 comments:

Birches said...

We've had a very warm winter, with the exception of a very, very snowy February. I just finished switching out my kids' winter clothes for our summer stuff, so I suppose that means we're do for a massive snowstorm.

Bruce Hayden said...

Not sure why you think that is ideal. Here in CO, we have about 70 and no overcast. Indeed, yesterday could see downtown Denver form the foothills, and even DIA. Course, on the flip side, we had snow last week, esp. up in the mountains. Not a lot, just enough to remind us that it isn't summer yet.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

None of the burdens of excessive sun and warmth...

In other words, no men in shorts.

Ann Althouse said...

You'd have to get down to the 20s to be free of the risk of men in shorts in Wisconsin.

Meade said...

Ha ha. Round here, real men wear shorts when it's overcast and subfreezing.

Ann Althouse said...

Similtaneous posting, baby. We're like two legs of a pair of pants.

Meade said...

Yeah, well, it's getting a little too warm here for any pants at all.

tim in vermont said...

The obliviousness of people who live in warm climates to the pleasures of a cooler one is remarkable.

MadisonMan said...

Hello Spring. And Welcome!!

@BruceH: My friends in CO are *already* talking about snow chances in 10 days. Beware!

Of course, it's been a long winter for them snow-lovers (except for February).

Michael K said...

When I lived in New Hampshire, I helped my neighbor with his maple syrup collection so I could learn how to do it. It was work but a lot of fun to how it was done.

Michael K said...

To learn how it was done.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

We're like two legs of a pair of pants.

Joined at the crotch? You naughty newlyweds!

Curious George said...

The maple saap will taste like water...you have to have a lot, and boil off the water, for it to be sweet.

Anonymous said...

tim in vermont,

I have lived in two snowy midwestern states and two sunbelt states. I agree that cool weather and snow can be fun.

I have a theory on why sotherners think northern winters must be miserable. It is because of houses built for cooling only. I am more miserable in my sunbelt house at 40 degrees than I ever was in my snowbelt houses at 10 below. I think southerners get the idea that winter is miserable because they have no idea how to overcome cold.

I have also tried to sell the idea that driving on ice is simple--it just like ice-skating in your car. You would not believe the blank stares I get when I try using this analogy.

rhhardin said...

Patriarchy recurrence, an actual Men Working sign today.

Browndog said...

Boiling up 6 gallons of today's sap flow as we speak.

dbp said...

Maple sap tastes like water to some people and sweet to others. When I tapped trees, my wife thought the sap tasted like water, to me it was distinctly sweet.

Ann Althouse said...

It was sweet.

Meade said...

It was sweet to me too.

tim in vermont said...

We have several sugar maples on our property and one of them had a twig broken off and the resulting sap had frozen into a little ball of ice. I noticed it because there was a chickadee eating from it.

MadisonMan said...

BTW, althouse, did you notice Quentin in shorts on AI last week?