This is our second season picking olives at home, so we can use during the cooking sessions a precious and very special organic olive oil. With some experience acquired we handled sticks, picking nets, stakes, baskets and sacks. The place being the same, we found a landscape very different from last year, a dry soil this time without a single blade of grass where the olives could hide when falling from the trees. Hot weather and short sleeves often, and the sun keeping us company. Also the olives we took to the oil mill were different, smaller and less lustrous,