Today Ollie, Reed and I walked around the Church of San Francesco. The exterior of the church was rather dull so we did not bother to take a picture. Around the back of San Francesco we came across first a fig tree......
Figs.......
Figs.......
There were not too many figs on the tree and all the ripes one were towards the top.....Then......
A juniper tree with juniper berries. To me the juniper berries smelled like a gin and tonic (actually Juniper is one of the main spices used to flavor gin!). Gin got its name from a shortening of the Dutch word for juniper "genever."
As we rounded the corner behind the church, you could see olive trees in the foreground with Siena in the back. It was very pretty and quiet back here.
A close up view of the olives.
Notice that there are green and black olives on the same branch (the black ones are riper).And Lastly.....Grapes.....
This small vineyard is in a valley near our new apartment. Again, notice the purple and green grapes growing together. I tried a green one-it was very sour!
Tomorrow we head to Montalcino for the day! Our first day trip out of Siena!
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