Vermont - Day 17

Maple Grove Campground
Sunday, 17 June 2018
Father's Day

Hot and humid all day.  I took it off from traveling so I could do things like showering and laundry and sweeping and window washing and so forth.

The campground sells maple syrup that's a product of their own trees.

The blue lines are hoses attached to the trees - apparently they just leave them year round - which makes sense because it couldn't possibly be good for the trees to be poked over and over.  Of course I bought some syrup and was forced to make French toast today to try it out.  Pretty good.

This is a very small campground - only 27 campsites - but very pleasant and well-run.  They have a solar panel installation.  I meant to ask someone what percentage it supplies but never remembered.  Pretty high percentage, I'd think, because there's plenty of room to add more panels if they need them.

Lots of bedrock poking up.  I've been hearing more and more that the soil in Vermont is only about as deep as it takes to scratch at it, and it goes straight to bedrock underneath. 

I took this at the Chester Arthur homesite yesterday, and those places that look like bare patches are bedrock.

This other one is at the campground and shows considerable ingenuity in dealing with bedrock when you want a garden.  That's a chunk of bedrock sticking up out of the hill that the garden frame is sitting on.