This year at Wesselman's Nature Preserve, we attended the Sugar Maple Festival. During this outing, we learned how the Sugar Maple trees are tapped for sap to make syrup. We were treated to a pancake breakfast with maple syrup distilled straight from the trees along with sausage and orange juice, live Celtic music and the company of some wonderful people. In this picture, the ranger shows Dylan, Gracie and Wes, my son, niece and nephew how to tap the tree and let the sap drain into a bucket. All three got to tap a tree and taste the sap straight from the trunk, (as did I!)

Afterward, we went for a walk in the preserve, the largest old growth forest in Southern Indiana.