The Olive Saga II

 The Olive Saga Part II

So you already know I loooved picking olives together this year with friends and family and this love shared amongst each other and also Nature yielded abundantly😉🌱🌿 well we just had to do it again!!!

So Pedro started looking at his olive trees with a different reverence and he invited us to help pick his olives for the first time too😁In 3 days again, we went from 3 to 4 to 3 and then only 2 people at the very end, and picked 750 kg which yielded 100 litres of delicious Olive oil, an even better proportion than the first round here at my place ❤️and it was such a blessing to be in a quiet village lost in the vast lands of Alentejo, where the silence is coloured by the sheep herds' bells, the Church clock chiming the time every hour, the cooler air of Autumn settling in, with the crisp morning chill kissed by the shy sun and the clouds settling in on the second day to bless our harvest with the season's rain, all received with a smile, grateful to spend so much time outdoors😊

After each tree's treasures are gathered onto the net down below, sitting down to sort the leaves and small branches out from the piles of olives is solace, feeling the warm, sometimes moist ground underneath us and taking in deep breaths of fresh earthy air, recovering our strength for the next tree... All so peaceful, such simple joys💧🍃🌿

And having a special friend like Margarida Moreira to come and housesit while I am away, caring for the dog, the cat, the chickens... And then arriving home and receiving the most beautiful surprise! Lying on my bed, a painting crafted with the colours of Love ❤️thank you so much Margarida, for painting the One you see in me🙏 Life beyond technology is so richly fulfilling that I don't spend much time online, actually very little, so it takes me a while to share these special moments but here it is now, shared with endless gratitude❤️❤️❤️