Olive Harvest
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001 On All Saints' Day (November 1), all of us from the...
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002 heading into the olive grove...
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003 olives!
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004 It was a cloudy day, but not too cold...perfect swe...
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005 Alfredo explains the process...
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006 We spread hug round tarps, specially made for olive...
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007 Alfredo arranging the first tarp...
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008 putting out the tarps
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009 getting started
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010 To harvest olives, you use a small hand-held rake t...
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011 Anna getting some of the higher branches...
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012 We used ladders to get up to the higher branches.
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013 Raking down some olives...
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014 That just doesn't look quite safe...
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015 Gary goes for the high ones...
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016 up in a tree
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017 Tammy, hard at work
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018 David harvesting the top branches
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019 Matt and Lauren, up in a tree...
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020 waiting for Alfredo to cut some high branches and t...
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021 Tammy
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022 Gary getting into precarious positions...
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023 finishing up the first few trees
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024 It's okay, you don't have to get every single one!
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025 getting the last few olives off of this tree
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026 cleaning some of the twigs and leaves out of the ol...
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027 cleaning out the twigs and leaves
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028 a tarp full of olives...with Gary still in the tree
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Album Description:
Wednesday, November 1, was a holiday here in Italy: All Saint's Day (Ognisanti). Traditionally, it is a day to honor the dead--to visit cemeteries, put flowers on graves, and remember the ancestors who made you who you are today, very similar to our Memor
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