Today's image is of "olive trees gone wild". This tree is somewhere below Bouyon in the "Arriere Pays" behind Nice. Once upon a time this tree and its friends and neighbours were a valued part of the local community but rural depopulation and so on mean that they've been pretty much ignored for years. And you can tell. If you want to see the tree in its full high res goodness click on the image and do look at past olive tree blogging images if you missed them