Windswept Farm Maple Syrup Barton Vermont

 I had myself a weekend!! :-) It was so good to get back up to Vermont. My soul desperately needed a Vermont fix. We went up to visit a few sugar makers that we are friends with, but also visited a few dear friends.

Maple Sugaring season is a rite of Spring for the Vermonters. It's also a time that I always look forward to every early Spring.

There will be a series of blog posts written about this weekend (yes, I finally have more material to share here on the blog), and I will start with the first sugar house we visited.

I became friendly with Adam, the farmer who owns a little piece of Heaven called Windswept Farm, several years ago. Adam gives me permission to photograph his property and you may remember seeing other photos taken here in previous blog posts.  Adam's property overlooks May Pond in Barton, which is one of my favorite places on Earth. In the above photo, you can see the steam coming from the cupola......a sure sign that the boil is underway. 

A different vantage point. Notice the gothic barn to the right. That's my favorite barn to photograph and you may recognize it here because I've posted several different photos of it over the years. You can also see the steam rising from the sugar house once again.

Inside the sugar house

After our visit and syrup purchase, we said goodbye to Adam and headed down below to May Pond to eat our lunch.

It was a great morning. Next stop is Monroes Sugarin'. Will post those tomorrow.