The maple syrup season has ended. My twelve taps only produced about nine liters this year. There would have been a couple more if it weren’t for that unfortunate burnt sap incident. When we tapped the trees there was still snow on the ground, although not a lot:

tapped-trees

Some snow in April took care of that:

snow

As of three days ago we were still getting some interesting ice patterns on the puddles and ponds in the morning:

ice1

but that hasn’t stopped the garlic

garlic

or this crocus:

crocus

It’s amazing how much can happen in a month.