Into the Sugar Bush and Back

It drizzled when we began our trip to the sugarbush. It drizzled when we got home. It drizzled at all times between. But it was our day to go, and so we went. On the one hand, the colours can look quite saturated in the rain, so the familiar trip was very pleasant. On the other hand, the lack of light tends not to highlight the autumn colour in photos. However, I will show you what I took, so you can know, as best you can, what it is looking like in these environs.

There was not much reason to stop in the drizzle along the way, but I forget from year to year that there is also not much place to pull over on our rural roads anyway. Once we were almost there, I was able to pull off to capture this little scene with the big ladder and the one colourful tree. It's a little puzzling, eh?

Right next to it, along the road, I liked the fence and the colourful row of trees. I do like this photo, but it is really the only one from the day that I feel that way about.

We ate our pancakes, French toast and maple sausages, but we didn't bother walking around the compound in the drizzle and were soon on our way home. We did stop along the sugar camp driveway on our way out of the property to capture this bend in the road.

I also captured an image ↓ of the glacial erratics off the side of the driveway. If you have been here for any length of time, you have seen them before. If you're new, I can tell you that they are boulders that were dumped by the glacier, probably 10 to 20 thousand years ago. (I will let FG confirm or correct my guesstimate.)

On the return trip, I did find enough room to pull off the main road at Playfair where OUR Mississippi and not The Mighty Mississippi River crossed. It's the same river that much later flows through town.

I walked back toward Sue and the car, which you can see on the right. We drove straight home from there.

It was a pleasant outing which has become part of our autumn ritual. As we had left the premises, I told the cashier that I would see them in spring, and she wished me a good winter. 

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Oh! Ed left instructions to make an emoji, but it posts like a big photo here. It also takes its own line in FB Messenger, but it shows as a regular inline icon in text (Messages in Apple).

If you have an Apple phone go back to his comment on yesterday‘s phone. In fact, I will repost below to save you the trouble. All questions should be directed to Ed, who is smarter than I, which is not necessarily saying a lot, so don't get too puffed up, Ed. 😇

"Do you have an iPhone? If so, the message app has a menu where you can create custom emojis. Hit the plus button to the left of where you type your text, scroll down to "Genmoji" and have fun."