A Sure Sign of Spring
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
The sap is running in Holmes County, Ohio, and you can see the taps Amish people have put out in stands of maple trees. I took this photograph on Mt. Hope Road, just south of Route 250. I could hear the sap dripping into the buckets while I stood there to take the picture. They have a sign out at this Amish farm advertising eggs for sale, and I know they also sell baskets from their front porch in the summer time. I think I’ll stop this summer to ask if they sell maple syrup, too.
Just down the road from there, I found a softball game under way behind a school house, and I took this photograph from a considerable distance. We stopped to watch for a while, and I can tell you these kids were just as intent on winning their game as professional athletes might be.
I don’t know which of these is the better sign of spring, but I’ll take either one happily, given the severe winter we’ve had in Ohio.
