old olive trees start to hollow out with all of the life moving to the perimeter of the trunk

…here on the slopes below Castel San Pietro, some of which are said to be more than 400 years old and cultivated on this land for thousands of years, are getting their early spring pruning, like all of the other olive trees in the area, leading to aromatic bonfires of branches and picturesque billows of smoke as far as you can see in the rolling landscape.