Vermont's Gold

Vermont’s Gold

I tripped and landed face down in the snow, I propped myself on my elbow and leaned there taking in the glittering expanse of the white washed world around me. I jumped to my feet as the snow penetrated my glove and its icy sting met my hand in a cold embrace. As I stood their still examining the world around me I heard the other children that were with me on a Vermont’s gold collecting expedition. We were collecting the sweet sap that mother maple supplied. This sugaring collecting adventure was not a big business, so were just at a friend’s house doing the activity that we enjoyed, so that we would not have to eat Aunt Jemima all winter. We would take this sweet nectar of the winter and boil it down to get the pure decadence of the maple syrup that which this sap would evaporate into. We brought the sap back to the huge pan where we were boiling down this sweet ingredient of the wonderful maple syrup. After we had completed collecting the sap that had dripped into these tin buckets that was holding this treasure, we were almost prepared to begin to start the process that has made Vermont famous from the start of this country. Look on a quarter today and you will see how maple sugaring, as it is at times referred to, and how it was first collected. This is one activity that I love to perform in Vermont and what I did on that cold December day.