Much as I love the olive harvest, being constantly picking olives in the fog with the land saturated from recent rains, I can’t remember the last time my feet were either warm or dry… 😳☔️👣🇪🇸 #photography #oliveharvest #spain

Another long day spent picking olives whilst enshrouded by fog, only enjoying a brief stroll at dusk as it finally clears… 😳📷🇪🇸 #photography #landscape

The ongoing saga of trying to get a permanent fix for AF switch on my EF 80~200mm f2.8L lens. Tracked down a special 2-part epoxy adhesive after a recommendation, but it turns out it doesn’t quite weld as effectively as the name suggests, so it’s back to using good old Araldite… 😉📷🫶 #photography

An unsurprisingly quiet night at the mill… 😉🫒👏🇪🇸 #photography #olives #oliveoil

An amber dusk at the Coll de Lacàs… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography

48mm of rain in the last eighteen hours has put pay to picking any olives for a while. On the plus side, 3,500 litres of rain harvested for the cistern… 😉🫒☔️🇪🇸 #photography #olives #weather

A filthy, horrible day with fog that drenched the trees and didn’t clear until 5:00pm. Makes me wish I had a waterproof olive harvester. Pretty much a wasted day… 😳📷🇪🇸 #photography #olives #harvest

Although when making our own olive oil I prefer [the variety] Farga, when it comes to the #olives that we sell, Empeltre is king! It was literally raining olives today, as the pedicel (the stalk) of Empeltre breaks readily, allowing for a speedy harvesting of the trees… 😉🫒🫶🇪🇸 #photography #harvest

I flattened the ground in early summer, but didn’t do a proper job as I was expecting to do it right in Autumn, then time just ran away with me. Weeds and rocks are making the recovery of floor olives particularly difficult this harvest, which is leaving many behind… 😳🫒🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography

Another foggy one, and it took all day to clear. Roll on January… 😵‍💫📷🇪🇸 #photography #landscape

"The cat has nine lives ~ three for playing, three for straying and three for staying..." 📷🐈‍⬛🫶 #cats #photography

Didn’t quite manage to stay above the fog today, but it did burn off by lunchtime… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography #landscape

A hundred kilos from one tree! Get in… 😉🫒🙌🇪🇸 #Farga #oliveharvest #photography

With a high of 19°C, it was a really nice day to pick olives… 😅☀️🫒🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography

Good days can be gauged by how quickly the nets fill up… 😉🫒💛🇪🇸 #OliveOil #photography #olives

When you go for a walk with an old girl like this and you end up with a locked mirror and shutter jam, the next few hours are spent nursing her back to health… 😳📷🫶 #PentaxMX #photography

With such a bright moon overhead, I thought I’d dig out my old #Pentax 300mm and stick it on a [slightly less old] crop sensor #Canon 30D, giving an equivalent focal length of 480mm. I should really have got out the tripod too, but in the end I just rested on the balcony railings… 😳📷🌙🫶 #photography

Nice to enjoy the a gentle walk at the close of play after a mad day on the road… 😉🚗💨📷 #landscape #photography #spain

Bit of a foggy start to the day. Managing to stay above it for the most part… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography #weather #spain

After such a long time (4 yrs), it’s great to be making #OliveOil once again! A little later in the season than we would have normally, but our Farga olives gave us an extraction of 22.16% and filled the house with 90 litres of fresh, beautifully golden extra virgin olive oil… 😉🫒💛🇪🇸 #photography

An enjoyable evening was spent at the village Cava festival. I can’t believe this is now in its fourteenth year! Long may it continue… 😉🥂🍾🫶🇪🇸 #cava #photography #wine

A night on the town, in the presence of St George… 😉📷🫶🇪🇸 #Ascó #photography

Early morning mill run… 😉🫒🇪🇸 #photography #oliveoil #evoo

Juiced the last of the #pomegranates from our little harvest. They make such a wonderful fruit juice, it’s going to be a long wait until we can enjoy these once again… 😋🍹🇪🇸 #photography #canon

Another blustery day, but at least the nets are filling up nicely… 😉🫒🇪🇸 #OliveHarvest #photography

Laying 10x5 metre nets during 60 Km/h gusts can be somewhat challenging; calling for necessity as the mother of invention, and the joy that are tent pegs becomes real… 😉🫒🌪️🇪🇸 #olives #harvest #photography

It’s great to be back amongst the olives after such a long time, although my back is constantly reminding me that it is four years older since it last did an olive campaign… 😳🫒😂🇪🇸 #photography #olives #harvest

Getting started with the olive harvest has been a logistical nightmare this season, and we would normally be three weeks into it by now. However, I’m happy to report that we’re on it, and well on the way to finally having some fresh extra virgin olive oil again… 😉🫒💛🇪🇸 #photography #olives #spain

The clarity of the atmosphere to the naked eye has been great since a storm last weekend, to the point where we can see the tops of the Pyrenees every morning. Had to convert it to B&W to make it “pop”, but it’s amazing that they are a 103 miles away… 😉🔭📷🇪🇸 #photography #spain

A blustery evening as we pass along the Coll de Lacàs. A week of strong winds lies ahead… 😉🌪️📷🇪🇸 #photography #landscape

Quite annoyed at myself for dropping the submersible pump. I tried to repair it, but the seals didn’t hold & the motor flooded. Faced with a seized pump, I did my usual routine of stripping it down & harvesting any useful parts. I do find motor/generator windings things of beauty… 😍🛠️📷🫶 #photography

Managed to hold off until tonight for the first fire, but I guess that’s us burning now until Spring… 🥶🔥🇪🇸 #winter #spain #photography

All set for another night of hunting… 😉📷🐈🫶 #cats #photography

It’s nice to keep warm with a little bonfire, and admire the autumnal colours in the vineyard, as the temperatures continue to drop… 😉🍇🔥🇪🇸 #photography

After a few days of cloud and a little light rain, you really appreciate the break when it comes… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography #weather #spain

Enjoying the view as we continue with the clear up before the rains hit… 😉📷🔥☔️🇪🇸 #photography #oliveoil #agriculture

A bit of a murky day, but at least I managed to clear more gorse that had been taking hold along this wall. Another 22mm of rain fell to finish off a dreary afternoon… 😉⛏️☔️🇪🇸 #DailyLife #photography

A little bit of damp weather has brought forth the wild #mushrooms. As ever, the ones in my reference book never quite look the same. I think this could be the Shield Dapperling (Lepiota clypeolaria), but who knows! Carry on walking m’dears… 😉📷🍄‍🟫🇪🇸 #photography

When the garrigues starts to invade the terraces; as someone who doesn’t eat a lot of meat, rosemary is overrated anyway… 😉🌱⛏️🇪🇸 #olives #oliveoil #photography

Just managing to stay above the fog of late… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography #spain

Great to get this year’s #Syrah racked off the lees/sediment. It’s shaping up really nicely, with a clean aroma and plenty of fruit. It feels good to be making [comparatively] larger batches again after this prolonged drought… 😉🍇🍷🇪🇸 #wine #photography #winemaking

Sunday afternoon vibes… 😉📷🌅🇪🇸 #photography

Light overnight rain of 10mm giving way to a very blustery day across the olive grove… 😉📷🇪🇸 #oliveoil #photography #olives

Just bought the wife two brand new olive nets! She’s so lucky… 🥰🫶😂 #OliveHarvest #oliveoil #evoo

An overnight storm delivered 25mm of rain, which was only a third of the amount recorded less than twenty miles away, but not to be sniffed at. Clearing skies this evening, but more rain on its way for the weekend… 😉📷☔️🇪🇸 #photography #weather

It’s surprising just how quickly woody scrub like rosemary can re-establish itself when it’s left to its own devices for a couple of years. I foresee a spot of digging in my immediate future… 😳⛏️🇪🇸 #evoo #oliveoil #photography

So after the tractor work, the margins and level changes need strimming/brushcutting. After four years without olives, it’s nice to pull the land back into shape, even if the trees are in need of a good haircut… 😉✂️🫒🇪🇸 #photography #oliveoil #evoo

A beautiful day to do a bit of tractoring in preparation for harvest… 😉🚜🫒🇪🇸 #evoo #oliveoil #photography

An antique leather horse collar hanging on our neighbour’s wall. We inherited a rather moth and mouse eaten one when we took on this project, but got rid when we cleared the house. Kinda wish I’d kept it now… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography

Not much in flower at the moment, but at least our Coleus plants are putting on a little show… 😉📷🇪🇸 #photography