Hi! Hope everyone is having a great week!
I have been searching for Maple trees near the house (for early spring tapping). It's important to get them marked now (while they have leaves). There are not a huge amount of Maple trees on my property, most are Birch, but I managed to find a few.
The tree shown in the photo below is a red maple, also called a swamp maple or a water maple. Unlike a sugar maple, red Maple is a soft-wood. Thankfully red maple can still be tapped! It has pretty well the same sugar content as sugar Maple does
(Photo below) the red leaves are from my tree, the green leaves are from Google. As you can see, they don't look exactly like traditional Maple leaves look.
This is a traditional maple leaf (From a tree in my yard)
This is a photo of my driveway this week. Not so much orange and red, lots of yellow. Birch leaves turn yellow, not red or orange, and as I have piles of Birch, Autumn here is more yellow than in Ontario. Still beautiful!
Yesterday's chore- a three rail fence to block off the side path from ATVers and dirt bikers.
I hope you all have a great day! I have an appointment with the Sarcodosis specialist this afternoon. I'm pretty well in constant pain so hopefully she'll be able to help! Fingers crossed!
Hugs and love!
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