Harvesting Trees
Unlike the grape harvest (which is also happening, benefitting from the extended summery weather), this is more of a one-in-thirty years affair. Across the valley the plantation of pinus radiata is being harvested. That means waking up to distant hum of chainsaws and rattle of machinery. But Sunday is a day of rest.
Quite a part from the chainsaws it is a bit of shock to cope with the denuded land once the trees are harvested — though we do have to accept its a crop albiet a long term one.