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From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Birdseye view of the shop, stuffed-to-the-gills as any good shop should be. Maple tree "wall hangings" for sale on the back wall; handcrafted maple (wood) candlesticks and other tchotchkes in the corner by the sliding barn doors, maple-themed wall sconces on the other side of the sliding doors... ... you can never have too many finishing touches, of course! -
Coatrack/ hatrack with Thérese's sweater-jacket...
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From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
... and a maple-leaf tuque (winter cap) on display as well. The shop's customers can buy the tuques, of course—but she tells them, don't even think about making an offer on her favorite old sweater-jacket! -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Closeup view of the top of the interior fireplace, with inset medallion and date and signatures carved into the paperclay "stones" while they were still wet. I always forget to sign and date our buildings. This time, I made a big point to remember. -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
And there you are, looking in again! View through the sliding doors, partially opened, into the sugar shop. -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Oh, well. I won't tell that you're looking. Who doesn't love stealing a view through the front window? -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Another way of looking into the sugar shack... -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Above the fireplace mantel, another of the family's treasured prints—and high up, embedded in the stone, a second fleur-de-lis medallion, matching the one on the outside chimney wall. -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
From this angle some of the family's treasured prints, showing the past and present of maple sugaring, reminding them of why they do what they do, are in full view. -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Somebody's left a sticky oven mitt on the desk in the corner. Empty sap buckets are in the corner by the fireplace, just out of the way of the feet-saving floor mats. There's another bucket slung over the tap on the evaporator, pulling more finished maple syrup. And that pizza on the table's getting cold by now... -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Several pans of fresh fudge await packaging. Maple swirl! Vanilla maple! Maple walnut, and even double-maple! Maple syrup is condensing into candy in a huge electric boiler, for use out in the taffy-pulling trough. And that plate of cookies on the short barrel looks so good I can almost smell them from here. This must be maple Heaven!! -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Besides the waiting telephone, it looks as though there's fresh fudge being cut for a customer on the front counter, and candies being sold as well. -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Bernard? Bernard, where are you? Someone's on the phone for you... The receiver lies in front of the cash register, waiting for Bernard to pick up. He must be cold, wherever he is, because it seems he's left his leather jacket slung over the desk chair in the sugar shack. Above the wide passage between the two rooms, a beautiful poster showing the hot work which takes place in a sugar shack gives visitors a "taste" of how their maple syrup is made, even when it's not sugaring season. -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
(Sorry about the blur. Camera on a timer set on tripod, tons of lighting, yet still there's blur in some of these. Grrr. Did the camera sense my hurry on the final photo shoot?) Arrayed on the wall and hanging from hooks on the pegboard above the workbench, tools of the trade old and current. An antique pair of snowshoes and an old two-man saw are there for decoration, to remind visitors of the history of the maple syrup industry; a crosscut saw, pots, pans, strainers, spoons, and a handy oven mitt are within easy reach for the needs of today. Next to the bench is a fire extinguisher, which we hope the Aucoins will never need of course; and on the workbench itself, ropes and baskets are tucked on the lower shelf, while a freshly-pulled bucket of Grade-A syrup sits beside just-filled containers, and a roll of paper towels, a hammer with easy leather-wrapped handle, a roll of duct tape, and what's this? Someone must have gotten hungry, because there's a pizza and a to-go-cup of soda on the workbench as well. When the work won't stop, you can't stop to eat... -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Peering down form above gives a good view of the maple-syrup evaporator, now filled with yummy sap on its way to becoming syrup—without which a sugar shack is nothing. -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
The wood is stacked nicely in the shed... well, except for that bit that didn't get finished. Look at the sawdust and wood chips all over the place, and there are a couple of empty syrup-buckets just hanging around, too. This is the not-quite-neat side that no tiny sugar-shop-customers should get to see! -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
Thorny Rock, Maine seems to be blanketed ;) in one last spring snow today, but brown leaves are still blowing about. Ice melt sits in the back of the shop, waiting to be dragged out at the first sign of slippery walkways. View from the back of the shop, sans roof. -
From the album: 2014 HBS Creatin' Contest--Erabliere Aucoin, Sugar Shack and Shop
On the day of the "final" photo shoot (gathering pix for submitting to the Creatin' Contest, and good pix generally), I transformed a section of bedroom into a very messy winter wonderland, like Maine in late spring, added every last detail to every last surface, lit that room with everything I could move in, until finally I remembered how hot it can be under the lights on a stage—and then began taking shots from every angle imaginable. It's fun to take shots as you go along, but seeing the whole scene staged is kind of magical. Well, it's magical afterwards, when I'm not sweating under the lights and trying to find a good place to set the tripod and worrying that nothing will come out well and hurrying so I can can make use of the waning afternoon light coming in through the windows as well... A shot of the sugar shack, the HBS kit that started this project, looking in from the back corner of the building.
