This picture was taken inside the building which is, unfortunately falling apart.
Still inside is the huge flat boiling pan used to reduce the sap to syrup and hundreds of the stylized cone-shaped sap buckets, ready to hang once again from the trees.
This particular sucrerie ...or sugaring off cabin was used until about 20 years ago for the making of Maple syrup and Maple sugar.
It was a family operation but with most of the kids gone to the cities there's not enough 'cheap' labour to run it anymore.
I stumbled across it on run through the logging roads and trails not far from my house.
In Quebec, where I was born, they are called either cabanes a sucre or Sucreries but in any case the big ones are amazingly full of delicious local food.
Very seasonal they nonetheless are very popular in Quebec.
Here is one of the better ones situated on the same mountaintop I used to live on.
In case you don't know what they're all about.
www.sucreriedelamontagne.com/
If it is abandoned I'd go back and snap that door again before the plates go walkabout.
ReplyDeleteI love the contrast between light and shadow...there are some great textures here too!
ReplyDeleteVery nice high contrast image of the abandoned sucrerie (sugar shack here in Wisconsin)
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