Christine Shea, left, hands her husband, Dan, tea Sunday from their evaporator at Cobbs Hill Sugarhouse as Isaac Cooley, 3, samples maple ice cream with his mother, Amanda. The Cooleys, of Waterville, were some of the several guests who trekked to the Shea's maple syrup operation in Mt. Vernon.
Guests enter and exit on Sunday the Cobbs Hill Sugarhouse in Mt. Vernon.
Dan, front, and Christine Shea evaporate Sunday with guests at the Cobbs Hill Sugarhouse in Mt. Vernon.
Steve Bennett holds containers filled with fresh maple syrup while explaining the process to Amanda Martin and her father Rick at the Beaver Hill Plantation maple operation in Freedom during Maine Maple Sunday event on Sunday.
As steam rises from bubbling sap Jeff Keating explains the process of boiling sap into maple syrup to Erin Herbig inside the sugarhouse at Beaver Hill Plantation maple operation in Freedom during Maine Maple Sunday event on Sunday.
Shari Reynolds, right, holds a cup of ice cream covered with maple syrup and some baked beans served by Alexis Bennett inside the sugarhouse at Beaver Hill Plantation maple operation in Freedom during Maine Maple Sunday event on Sunday. The business opened the sugarhouse to a steady flow of families to learn about and sample maple products and horse drawn wagon rides through the sugarbush were offered.
Brennen Wade, left, and Drew Housel guide horses Pete and Harry pulling a wagon load of people through the sugarbush where maple sap is collected at the Beaver Hill Plantation maple operation in Freedom during Maine Maple Sunday event on Sunday.
Steve Bennett monitors a pump house that collects maple sap from lines through the woods at the Beaver Hill Plantation maple operation in Freedom during Maine Maple Sunday event on Sunday.
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