By John Owen

No present members of the City Council seem to be implicated in the questionable decision to name many of our city streets after appropriate trees. But the pioneer politicians who were involved exposed us to present or future law suits related to Truth in Packaging.

We've got a Maple Street with maple trees. But where is the maple syrup? I worry about such inconsistencies.

It may well have cost you some sleepless nights as well, particularly if you hung a bucket under a maple tree on Maple Street, and have been awaiting for the logical response from Mother Nature.

The bucket may have been hanging under the same tree for several years and if the bottom shows any trace of moisture the neighborhood squirrels may be implicated.

As an investigative reporter, I've checked on the trees. Upon examination they seem to be loaded with exstiipulate leaves and appear to have their fair share of polygamo-dioecious flowers, inavilliary cornymbs and two seeded samaras.So where is the maple syrup?

If anybody in this town is tapping maple trees I'd like to know about it. I have appealed to The Great God Google who came up with one maple syrup blogger in Spokane, who calls himself The Old Evaporator and turns out gallons of sap and quarts of syrup.

The Inland Empire had lots of snow last winter but we had our fair share. From the blog I deduce that maple tree tapping usually begins in mid-January and produces the most sap during cold but sunny days.

I think you need a new hobby. Now that our community has adopted a tolerance policy on poultry you should probably run down to Ace Hardware and buy two buckets, one for your chicken feed and one (or more) to hang from your maple trees.

I'm looking forward to the day when the typical Edmonds resident will begin the day with eggs from their backyard coop followed by pancakes with syrup gathered from Maple Street trees.

We may only need to import a maple syrup blogger from Spokane, to teach our trees how to ooze.