Starting from below, the tea plants rise up the hills in successive waves until they reach the blue of the sky. A harvest is imminent, so the flat surface of each bush is a lovely soft green, with the young leaves dominating the darker green of the older leaves hiding underneath.

Also from the bottom of the hill, a small sinuous trail to the top. From there, other smaller trails go perpendicular, delimiting each wave of greenery and giving the whole the neat layout and symmetry of a Japanese print.

Planted here and there, from the bottom to the top of the trees almost without branches – the winter pruning went through here – but decorated with small tufts of leaves. They stand guard like straight sentries. The luckiest ones are covered with a much-appreciated parasite: the pepper trees, whose soft green colour reveals the beginning of the growth.

Par Jean-Yves

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