THE HARVEST

Another place, another excursion. This time we were up before dawn on a winding train to the south. We got off in Monaco but we didn’t stay long as we weren’t in search of sun. Summer’s high season had long gone. Instead we had another mission, the olive harvest. Where there were olives, there was more; persimmons, figs, dandy lions, wine, and best of all good friends. Perched a top a hill in a quiet village in the Alpes-Maritimes, writers and photographers together we found ways to keep ourselves busy. We journeyed home with the fruits of our labor, our own bottles of oil pressed by the local miller that will feed our bodies and souls throughout the next year remembering this magic weekend. 

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Café de Paris in Monaco

demi peche and Imogen's Nikon

Photographer Mathew Paul Thomas in Monaco

Imogen playing in autumn leaves 2

collecting persimmons

Rosa eating persimmons

Imogen eating persimmons

sheep grazing in Gilette, France

Norwegian forest cat

Gilette, France

the olives we harvested

Matt sorting the leaves from the olives 1

Les Alpes Maritime, France

Sunset from Les Moulains du Vilars

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