Dear Art Lover,
So, what I have learned my first late
summer and now fall in my new home is that September and November will be the
months in which I do not want to have a bronze sculpture coming to completion
at the foundry, nor do I want to have an exhibition or anything that takes me
away from le raccolte (Italian for “the harvests). September in these parts is the harvest of
the famous white bean of Sorana and November, of course, is the olive harvest,
as it is in most all of Italy.
Here are a few of my favorite snapshots
from this year’s effort… the land here is much more terraced than the gentle
slopes in Casignano (outside of Florence) where I normally help with la
raccolta delle olive.
You may see more images on my upcoming
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| Setting out the nets the night before la raccolta begins |
I will be at the
foundry for the next couple of days, and otherwise, writing… and we still have
not finished the harvest. The rains are
holding much of that up.
Peace,
Kelly
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| Gregory has a difficult time understanding nets |
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| One sunny morning, but we also harvested under clouds |
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| Picking by hand still happens |
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| Filtering out foliage |
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| Sparse olive branches overlook the fields of rape |
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| Gregory helps with olive harvest - not |
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| Gregory tries to eat cascading olives |
