It usually starts in early March at this latitude. The days get longer, and daytime temperatures reach above the freezing point. Snow begins to melt and fall off branches, and formerly bright white mountainsides begin to show bare trees...

Maple sap drips off one of the Taylor family's taps on a sugar maple tree in South Kirby. In addition to their own pipelined sugarbush, the Taylors tap trees the old fashioned way, with hanging buckets, on the backroads throughout South Kirby.

Photo Number: BW-VT-074
Location: South Kirby, Caledonia County, VT
Date: April 2003
Film: Ilford Delta 100