Month: August 2011

• Searching for the shot.

  Last night the new macro  extension tubes for my old Nikon were delivered.  Such excitement.  I am a little girl with this stuff.  I lined them up, (there are three) put them on and off the camera. Lined them up again and waited until morning. This morning I screwed the biggest looking one in between…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 11, 2011

  Bees, Photography

  bee, fly, macro tubes, Nikon, sunflower

• Sustainable/Self-sufficient/Subsistence? Labels.

  Sustainable sounds so similar to subsistence. (Please excuse the alliteration) Subsistence is hand to mouth, then the hand is empty. Sustainable involves the land and using your hands to feed your mouth while enriching the land to grow some more. Sustainable growing is by nature more upwardly mobile. Subsistence is hard to get above.  Both…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 10, 2011

  Farm Animals, Living the life

  certified organic, cow, labels, old fashioned, self sufficient, sheep, subsistance, sustainable

• Waiting for the little Mites

  I woke up this morning to find that my internet connection was down.  I was practically hyerventilating within seconds. Am I one of the addicted ones?  Grimly I  turned everything off. I reluctantly backed away from the keyboard and went for a longer walk than usual. Something is happening to the air out there.. clouds…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 9, 2011

  Bees, Living the life, Photography, Recipes

  clouds, connection issues, Custard squares, egg custard, varroa mites

• The Barn at Rest.

  Earlier today I wrote  a totally different post for you. But it was being difficult. It did not reflect how I feel today. So I took the camera to the barn. The day shifts out of gear in the barn.  Stepping out of the high summer heat. The clamour quietens. It has five big doors…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 8, 2011

  Living the life, Photography

  Barn

• You say Tomayto and I say Tomarto – Summer Sauce

  Where I was born and where I learnt to cook, in New Zealand, when we preserve our produce we call it Bottling and  we “Put them Down.’  Here  (US) we say “Put them up’ and call it Canning but both are in a glass jar with a sealed lid. Does this have something to do…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 7, 2011

  Living the life, Preserving, Recipes

  bottling, canning, tomato, tomato sauce