Olive Orchard Road: New Work

Olive Orchard Rd
8" x 10"
original acrylic painting on 3/4" profile canvas
available: libbyfife@ymail.com
$65 + $10 shipping or free local pick up

This painting is from my outing on Sunday over on Olive Orchard Rd/Burson Rd. The morning time is always the best time for me to scope out a spot that I want to paint. The cooler shadows and soft light are ideal and frankly, I am a morning person. This particular road is of interest to me because it looks like there is a housing development in the area. Part of that development seems to be fenced off and I wonder if it never came to fruition. I can see from a cursory scan on the Internet that the site is about 256 acres and has/had olive trees on it. The parcels are 5 acres each but other than that I don't know how well the sales have gone. The land is beautiful though and I believe stretches out to Burson.

As a side note, I did also learn that these olives on this land have a history. Our area was home to the Rocca Bella Plant and up until the 60's, Calaveras County was involved in the olive industry. I am citing an article from recordnet.com that can be found here. The article, written earlier this year, details the efforts of Valley Springs resident Terry Beaudoin to revive the industry through his growing and bottling efforts. Sounds awesome to me. Who doesn't love olives?:)

If you are reading and have something to add, send me an email. Incidentally, the link to the current day Rocca Bella Olive co is here.

Libby
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