Harvest time approaching

In between the frequent rainshowers that are passing by with the regularity of the Heathrow Express, exept for the standard checks of familiar flora&fauna inhabitantas of the orchards, a new topic is more and more becoming subject of our attention. Harvest season is approaching fast and we need to keep track of the olives starting to ripe, in order to pick the exact time for harvest*. As with probably every other thing, one should not be too quick to act or delay too much the decision to pick the olives.  The earlier cultivars (i.e., the ones that tend to ripe sooner) started to change colour. Since this year's harvest will be quite meagre, there's no chance of picking each cultivar separately and producing monocultivar olive oil - it will have to be a cuvee. Not that it's a bad thing per se, will just have to time the harvest a bit more precisely.

Here are some of the leccino fruits already starting to change colour:

 Here is another grouping of leccino cultivar, with one olive (yes, the one a bit out of focus at 7 o' clock...) just about to start its dress change:

It is a matter of days now. Will keep you updated.

*That's a specific topic altogether, an is subject of a fervent, almost religious discussion, by followers of different schools. As almost always the old latin "in medias res" is true, probably there's a middle way in this topic too. Will elaborate in detail soon.