While a simple object, it is a rapidly fading part of the New England Landscape, as like all phases of farming, the process is being modernized to tubing and vacuum lines, for extraction, but somehow, the plastic lines running thru the woods have almost no charm, actually do not have ANY charm, while the old buckets hanging from the sides are so quaint.
funny how that is, take for example old wooden lobster traps, put a pile on a old leaning pier, and PHOTO OP,,, now
switch to modern time with the modern metal pile to traps, mmm not so much.
I think there is an essay buried somewhere in that topic, but,, meanwhile, get out there and photograph the fading objects of our past, before all is replaced with metal and plastic.