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this ancient olivetree is in the company of much younger trees- a well taken care of olive grove near Mas de Barberans.
Today, again, I take you back in time to a photo from 11 months ago - 17 March 2004 to be precise.
Things are going a bit slower this year (less blossom out at present for example) but I expect I'll be able to take a similar photo in the next few weeks. This weeked one of my tasks is pruning the olive trees. They need a good hacking at even though I did a lot last year.
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One use for pruned olive branches is as firewood. They smell nice and, when dry, burn very well and because the wood is so hard its good exercise to saw them up by hand. Since it takes more than a year for the wood to dry out enough to burn without excessive hissing so these logs are for next winter....
The ancient olivetrees at the ermita del Remei near Alcanar.
These trees are probably over 500 years old-the exact date is difficult to determine without core samples- and the trunks of the trees are so gnarled and twisted.
The olive trees swelter long after the fire is put out. This stump is still smoking and a danger to the whole region.
We went on a short hike (about 5 miles) to Mas de Barberans, our neighbortown. It was overcast which made it more pleasant to walk.
Along the way we passed beautiful drystone construction walls- the work and effort that wen into those retaining walls is incredible.
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Wir machten eine kurze Wanderung nach Mas de Barberans, unser Nachbardorf (etwa 7-8km).
Dem Weg entlang kamen wir an wunderschönen Trockenmauern vorbei. Die Arbeit und Sorgfalt die es brauchte um diese vielen Mauern zu bauen ist bewundernswert.
Es war leicht bewölkt, nicht so gut für Fotos, aber angenehm zum Wandern.
olive tree in Creete, Greece, estimated to be 3000 years old, still producing olives, today a natural monument
The Rivera received somewhere between 10 and 30 cm of snow yesterday and so today everywhere is an unusual colour - white. I'll be uploading more snowpocalypse photos but this one goes in the Olive Tree category instead.
The photo was taken at Notre Dame du Brusc in Chateauneuf where I've taken a number of other Olivetree blogging photos over the years
On our land we have an olive tree which our daughter Anna calls the lizard tree. In this tree lives a whole family of lizards. I have tied the clothes-line to this tree, and when I hang out the washing, she always keeps me company handing me the pegs and making up little stories about the lizard family. When she doesn't see them all, she tells me that mom has gone to the supermarket, dad has gone to work or that they are eating dinner.
She always picks some flowers and leaves them next to the tree so that the lizard family can use them to cook dinner.