Sugar Maple Country

Geauga County is known for its sugar maple trees. This time of year we can hardly handle the beauty! Here is a photo from our grounds taken by Mother Gabriella, and a poem written by Mother Cecilia.

Sugar Maple

Seekers of wisdom,

come follow me

to a true hesychast—

the sugar maple tree.

A whole year in silence,

meek without shame,

at the end of this season

he bursts into flame.

Then stripped of seen glory,

no blanket or fur,

at winter death’s end

he weeps a sweet myrrh.