Cherry Pickin'

One of the things we’ve enjoyed during our time in Vence is witnessing the vegetation around the property flower and bear fruit. In addition to roses, lavender and fresh herbs, there are cherry, apple, lemon, clementine, fig and olive trees – thirty-six olive trees to be exact.  The olives are harvested in November and pressed into high quality olive oil that Stefan’s family and guests (including us) use for the rest of the year. This past year, they were able to produce 22 gallons of olive oil. Pretty cool, huh?  Mommy is bummed that we will miss harvesting the olives.  Perhaps we need to return to Vence or just extend our stay until Christmas?! 

Yesterday, we picked cherries from one of two cherry trees in the backyard. Buckets and buckets of beautiful, deliciously sweet cherries…it was awesome!  Daddy and Stefan used some to make cherry schnapps that will be ready to drink by the end of the summer.  Stefan’s mother, Lotti, and Stefi made chocolate cherry muffins, cherry jam and cherry sorbet.  There are still cherries on the tree left to ripe and pick, so send us your favorite cherry recipes and we’ll give it a whirl. 

Here are a few photos from our cherry pickin’ adventure. Hope they make you hungry!

Love,

Griffin

Cherries!

"Must resist eating cherries. Must resist throwing cherries."

Mommy's helper

Daddy cherry pickin' the best of the cherries.

Those are Stefi's hands - she's removing the pits.