SPRING? At last!

with a couple of maple-based recipes

Hopscotch! Surest sign of spring anywhere in the world.

A writer decides to write about spring in Maine and almost inevitably she opens with the words: “Spring comes slowly to Maine. . . .”

Except that it isn’t entirely true. Spring, in fact, comes to Maine in frustrating fits and starts. I recall balmy weekends in late February bac…