tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641886362206394186.post6255014525795980297..comments2023-06-25T06:57:16.792-04:00Comments on Positively Phoebe: Italy Photos, Part 11Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12823567885224187819noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641886362206394186.post-17795695225431533282012-04-26T14:13:29.246-04:002012-04-26T14:13:29.246-04:00NO! It's not just the olive trees! We watched ...NO! It's not just the olive trees! We watched city workers cut all the leafy branches off of three different trees across from the vatican while waiting for our tour. The trees were all different and none were alive trees. The italians just hate branches!phoebe mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10439499755855271900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641886362206394186.post-77358703526562034402012-04-26T14:13:23.599-04:002012-04-26T14:13:23.599-04:00NO! It's not just the olive trees! We watched ...NO! It's not just the olive trees! We watched city workers cut all the leafy branches off of three different trees across from the vatican while waiting for our tour. The trees were all different and none were alive trees. The italians just hate branches!phoebe mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10439499755855271900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641886362206394186.post-68438184410088708462012-04-26T13:27:47.203-04:002012-04-26T13:27:47.203-04:00Olive trees! Thank you Traci! It is nice to unders...Olive trees! Thank you Traci! It is nice to understand the weird-looking pruning. Oh and Phoebe? that view from the Boboli garden, that is my country estate.dawnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641886362206394186.post-58085569449958985052012-04-25T22:38:14.645-04:002012-04-25T22:38:14.645-04:00The trees that are so heavily pruned are probably ...The trees that are so heavily pruned are probably olive trees. What sprouts out are lithe, thin branches filled with olives. Once it's time to harvest, they probably jut chop off those thin branches and feed them through a picking machine that separates the olive from the branch.(Any other way you'd lose a lot of the olives to the ground-picking up one olive at a time would not be very Traci Hillhttp://thetreesarefine.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7641886362206394186.post-16106073047925841492012-04-25T15:04:22.446-04:002012-04-25T15:04:22.446-04:00I'm not sick of them, and I was THERE! These ...I'm not sick of them, and I was THERE! These are some of your best compositions yet, and they've all been good. Keep them coming!<br />MumMumnoreply@blogger.com