Northern Borders Quotes

“time for us to tap the maples, and hang our buckets, too.”
― Howard Frank Mosher, Northern Borders: A Novel

“When the water runs down the hills, the sap runs up the trees,” my grandfather would announce. He and I would then pay a visit to his sugar bush, wading up the ridge behind the house through the deep snow to see if the red squirrels had come out to clip off the tender twigs at the ends of the maple branches to drink the new sap. “The squirrels are hanging out their sap buckets, Austen,” my grandfather liked to say. This was the sign that it was”
― Howard Frank Mosher, Northern Borders: A Novel