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So next time you pour maple syrup onto your pancakes, into your coffee or tea, or perhaps make this delicious pudding, take a moment to think about the lifecycle of the maple.

Over the past year or so, I’ve been working with The Gaian Way to design an artistic calendar to visually represent time as the local ecosystem experiences it. Inspired by a similar effort in Puerto Rico, the calendar looks at twenty common tree and shrub species in southern New England,1 and depicts a year of their collective activity as colorful rings of leaves, flowers and fruit, as well as the primary forces that drive them: daylight and precipitation.

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