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27 January 2023
The sidewalks of the church property up the street are lined with slender olive trees. Every year they get pruned back. And every time they do, we marvel at the art of it.
The gardeners manage to trim the busy foliage back to the branches, leaving a nearly perfect sphere of a silhouette without thinning the body too much. In fact, the trees resemble medieval paintings of trees in which every leaf was meticulously detailed.
It didn't hurt that there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
Usually we walk right by these beauties, noting their coiffed symmetry in passing. But this time we thought we'd retrace our steps and take a few photographs of them. Just them against that blue blue sky, cropping out their surroundings.
We shot five of the 11 trees (Judas must not have made the cut). In between the full images, we've added a detail crop of each of them.
When we featured olive tress in a slide show before, we wrote, "Olive trees require a Mediterranean climate of hot summers and cool winters." They always resonate with our own Mediterranean roots, reminding us where our family originated.
This variety of tree is not quite as dramatic as the variety we shot in 2022. We don't know how old they are or what variety, which even stymied Pl@ntNet.
But we have to admire them.