As diurnals ranged from a high of 19.8°C to a low of 5.3°C today, there’s still a need to keep feeding the fire on a nighttime… 😉🪵🪓🔥🇪🇸 #photography #weather #spain

Marking up a few of last year’s grafts that didn’t quite make it through the summer. I’m still pleased with the success rate of the rest, and fortunately I have some new replacements at the ready… 😉🍇🇪🇸 #photography #grafting #vineyard

Nice afternoon for a bit of tractoring… 😉🚜🍇🇪🇸 #photography #farming #vineyard

I grafted a #Syrah bud onto this Mourvèdre trunk a couple of years ago, and now it’s time to remove the #Mourvèdre section. I might do the one behind it too, as I much prefer growing Syrah, but I do like having one in the collection… 😉✂️🍇🇪🇸 #photography #wine

Having been trapped in drought for the past few years, pruning cuts on the vines have remained dry and pale, but with substantial rainfall over the past year a little normality has returned with the sap flowing from the cuts… 😉✂️🍇🇪🇸 #Syrah #wine #photography

A lovely sunny and wind free afternoon for a birthday barbecue of Calçots… 😉🥂🍾🇪🇸 #photography #calçots #calçotada

Nice to be enjoying a bit of pruning work in the vineyard before heading back to doing the olive trees… 😉✂️🍇🇪🇸 #photography #syrah #vineyard

Another blustery day amongst the almond trees, but at least we’re in for a couple of calmer days over the weekend… 😉🌪️📷🇪🇸 #photography #weather #spain

Quite surprised to see a little smattering of mist early this morning… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography

Almonds are flowering nicely this year; I hope the gales don’t throw a spanner in the works… 😉🌸🇪🇸 #photography

We’ve had a good run of regular wet weather, with 119mm of rainfall in January and a further 27mm so far this month, but with stable dry conditions for the foreseeable future this could be it. A sunny 19°C coupled with strong winds is already drying out the soils’ surface… 😳📷🇪🇸 #photography #weather

So it turns out, our budget plastic greenhouse wasn’t gale force wind proof… 😉🌪️💪🇪🇸 #weather #spain

An incredibly windy day here today, so much so that all the surrounding wind farms were “turned off”… 😉📷🌪️🇪🇸 #photography #landscape

Apparently the last of the weather fronts has pushed through today, which left behind a further 11mm of rain. Went for a little walk around the ’hood after the worst of it… 😉☔️📷🇪🇸 #photography #landscape

Southern Catalunya: sunny if a little breezy… 😉🌪️🇪🇸 #photography #landscape #spain

A dreary afternoon as another weather front is moving in, with a tad more rain in the offing… 😉☔️📷🇪🇸 #photography #weather #landscape

Scrumped some firewood from a mates place; and lost the steering on the way home as the little Agria went a bit nose-light on the uphills with all the weight in the back… 😳🚜💪🇪🇸 #tractor #Agria #photography

Oops, I might have to clean the solar panels after this one… 😳🔥🇪🇸 #Olives #photography #spain

Nice to burn off some of the waste branches before the wind hit us again… 😉📷🔥🇪🇸 #Olives #photography #oliveoil

With all this olive work, you kinda forget that the almonds are out there doing their thing… 😉📷🌼🇪🇸 #photography #almonds

This one’s always a bit of a brute… 😅🌳🪓🇪🇸 #Olives #photography #OliveFarm

After a mere 2mm of rain across a few hours early this morning, we just managed to get back inside this evening before another 4mm fell in less than half an hour… 😉📷☔️🇪🇸 #photography #weather #spain

I was gifted a 35-70mm from a good friend, so I’ve coupled it with my old Nikon F4s. I’ve not put a roll through this camera since the mid/late 90s (can’t remember exactly), so this should be fun… 😉📷🎞️🫶 #photography #nikonF4s

A little bit of overnight rain resulted in a brief return of the fog this morning. More tree work after stripping down the chainsaw… 😉📷🪓🇪🇸 #photography #landscape

Keeping vigil whilst taking in the warm evening light… 😉🐈🫶 #cats #photography

Always amazed just how much I have to take off these triffids… 😉✂️🫒🇪🇸 #olives #photography #spain

Next up, harvesting firewood (or pruning season as most will call it). One down, three hundred to go… 😉✂️🌳🇪🇸 #Olives #photography #spain

This find was a first for here, a 6.5×52mm Carcano round found just near the house. A calibre often used for hunting, but probably a remnant from the #SpanishCivilWar going by the other finds, it was designed for a rimless rifle in circulation from 1891… 😉📷🇪🇸 #history #photography

Never had to do this before, but just had to jet wash the olive nets before stowing away! It’s been such a wet season they were filthy, and hopefully not storing them caked in muck will stop them rotting before next season… 😉🫒🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography

Blimey, this January has been a wet one! Another 3mm of rain this afternoon… 😉📷☔️🫶🇪🇸 #photography #weather #spain

Last job was pressure washing the olive crates. Gotta look after them, as they were the wife’s Christmas present after all… 😉🫒📷🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography #spain

It’s a wrap! Well, obviously once the farmyard cat has checked things are all tickety-boo… 😉🫒🐈🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography #spain

Filling olive crates beneath a rather overcast sky thinking “Will it, won’t it”? Well, yes it did! More overnight rain… 😳📷☔️🇪🇸 #photography #olives #spain

Fully loaded, just before a mini storm hit! It’s good to be finally getting the floor sweepings to the mill, which will mark the end of the olive harvest for us… 😉🫒🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography #spain

After storms and overnight rain delivered another 19mm, the Sun finally came out briefly this afternoon… 😉☔️🇪🇸 #photography #spain #weather

With harvest over, it’s time to give the happy-clappy olive picking machine a good old clean and service before putting it to bed until the next time… 😉🫒🛠️🇪🇸 #olives #evoo #photography

All’s quite after a somewhat blustery day in smallsville… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography #spain

Not much of the forecasted rain fell today, so it was nice to stretch the legs. More showers this evening… 😉☔️📷🇪🇸 #weather #photography #spain

Another filthy day delivering a steady 25mm of rain… 😉☔️📷🇪🇸 #photography #weather #spain

After 10mm of overnight rain, the sky threatened more all day but never delivered. This evening has started with a forecasted twenty-four hours of rain… 😉☔️📷🇪🇸 #spain #weather #photography

A bit of a filthy horrible day here with 38mm of rain in the last 24hrs, so here’s a throwback to the #olive harvest and a peek at some of the varieties we grow… 😉🫒🇪🇸 #photography

Little bits of dirt from the seals keep finding their way into the mechanism causing a jam, & I keep cleaning them out. Fortunately, I seem to be winning now! I must admit, I’ve quite enjoyed nursemaiding these old cameras. I wish I’d have kept up with them over the years… 😉📷🫶 #photography #pentax

Heading into sunset with the last of the floor sweepings. Managed to get most [but not all] of the olives in, but with a week of rain ahead of us, this is pretty much it… 😅🫒🇪🇸 #photography #olives #oliveharvest

Nice day for floor recovery; feels like there could be around a tonne out here… 😳🫒🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography #spain

Good to get the last of the “top” olives done; next job is to continue the recovery of the floor sweepings… 😅🫒🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography #spain

With all this olive #harvest malarkey, I’ve been neglecting a bit of maintenance work in the winery. Today I fixed that! Racked a bit of #Grenache #rosé (among other things) with such a beautiful strawberry aroma that a picture just can’t convey… 😉🍷🇪🇸

January Farga; probably the finest looking quality olives for this time of year… 😉🫒🫶🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography #dailylife

To paraphrase that great line in a film: I guess I’m going to need a bigger box… 😉🫒🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography

A tough day battling with 50Km/h winds. Hopefully tomorrow will bring with it a return to the calmer weather… 😉🫒🌪️🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography

Catching the tail of Storm Goretti means that we are [thankfully] out of the fog, but back to pegging down the nets against the wind. Oh and yes, you learn the hard way to add the high-viz tape to the pegs… 😉🫒🌪️🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography