RAIN FALLING ON OLIVES

This was taken hours ago but, of course, it is all crashing, banging thunder and lightning, plus lashing down rain. In a storm like this the server is bound to be up and down, isn't it?

At first I thought the horizontal lines were wind blown rain but then I realized that the tree is a mass of spider webs. I hope the spiders stick around because there is a nasty little fly that arrives to bore holes into the olives.

The olives won't be ready to harvest until the end of October or beginning of November. If it's a bounty year the harvest can go on until Christmas and get to be quite a drag. It is only so-so this year, bordering on plain bad due to a late and cold spring. One year the crop was so poor that we started the olive harvest one day and finished it the next. Another year the olive press in the valley was churning out oil well into the New Year, some of it ours.

Che sara', sara', as they say in Italy.