We are very close to a beautiful collection. Your choices so far are perfect. Here are a few more suggestions from your fellow readers. Your responses to this project have been astronomical. And in fact often you have pointed to the same shot, which has been quite startling. 
We can only have one Daisy card though, so here you will have to seriously help me choose between these two. Daisy in front of the car is too long (Daisy enciente) and I am loathe to crop it. I shall keep that one as your first choice for the calender. Many of you asked to consider the cow and her cat! 
Below is a Farmy group shot. Look at Mama with her head resting on Mia’s head. Remember all these photos are in quite a raw state. They will have a lot of work done on them before going to the printers. Though now that I look at this group shot the back of that calf is too close to the edge.
Peghorn. I have a series of these as I crept closer to him (on my belly, thank goodness for my padded clown suit) so there is another that has more space around him. The postcard will be approximately 6×4. 
Moaning Mia’s Moustache. In the original I hopefully can add space for a printers crop (called a bleed) so we do not lose the tip of that ear. 
Mama and her nose. 
Sunrise. 
With postcards there is a certain amount of the image that you will lose in the printing, so if the subject is too close to the edge, the cropping will compromise the shot. The trouble with a large number of the TonTon images is that he has been shot too close. And his action shots are impossible. If the tip of his ears or his tail are cropped off the image will lose its power. And I am not happy with the focus in this shot. (sigh)
We may have to miss TonTon out for now. 
In a Frogs Eye and the Bee on Marbles are IN! They are wildly popular. Even if it is small, we will make sure that this is a perfect retrospective collection.
If you pop back in to help me again today it will be fine as far as the draw goes, everyone who comments, here or on FB or in an email gets one chance. I bet you are wondering how we are going to do the draw. Well, TonTon is undergoing rigorous training on how to draw a name out of the PomPom hat. He is trained to bring me anything I point to then say Gimme, so this is an extension of that command. I will fold each vote into a little paper parcel and he will (hopefully) pick out a piece and bring it to me. Three times. Well that is the plan anyway. A lot can go wrong. I will shoot it for you so that you can see that it will be entirely random. (Random being the operative word) One way or another he will choose three winners.
Yesterday in the morning I cleaned every floor in the house. Then yesterday afternoon I went to the barn and thoroughly scooped every floor out there. So my arms are feeling stretched this morning. I see the dawn coming now. Today the sky is perfectly clear.
The moon last night was so full and so bright. You know I have no curtains, so the bedroom was streaked in light, the window shapes creating long shadows, as though the afternoon sun was blazing but had been put through some kind of lunar photo shop and all the gold had been deleted leaving only silver. The shadow designs were hard and geometrical. I lay in bed in the dark early, early this morning, before I got up to write, watching this light and wondering how to describe it to you. Some images cannot be photographed. They need to be spoken of. Some cannot even do that.
Anyway. I am loving this process of choosing a selection of pictures from the archives for the first collection of postcards to celebrate the 40,000 mark of the kitchensgarden. This first print will not be repeated. It will be a limited edition. Each card will be numbered. This is why I want to get it exactly right. Fingers crossed I have chosen the right printers and all goes well in that department!
Now, it is 19F (-7C) so I am going to put on all my clothes and go outside to play. 6.40 am and dawn. I am getting earlier and earlier. It looks like it will be a fantastic sunny day today.
Good Morning!
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
93 responses to “Last day of giveaway postcard choices and votes.”
I’m for the cow and the cat!
fingers crossed for that one.. c
The sunrise should definitely be one. And I love Daisy and her cat.
Okey dokey… tick tick.. c
As much as I love that first shot of Daisy, I have to say that I agree — cow and cat! I also love the corn shot from the previous post. Congratulations on your milestone. It is richly deserved!
Thank you Siobhan, it is all kinds of fun! c
Me too. I like Daisy and the cat. It’s so loving and the cat is so contented. Perhaps it’s too late to suggest Ton Ton with the ice in his ears of recent posts. It’s unusual.
Many other people have suggested that one too annie, but unfortunately it was a casual shot on the run and i chopped half his ears off, and the press will chop the other half so sadly that one does not pass match the equation. Thank you too! c
Daisy and her flerd and tonton 003 would be my choices plus moaning mia’s moustache.
You are such a generous blogger – how can we repay you?
You already repay me with all your lovely words. And after the three winners there will be a few sets left over that I can sell to cover the costs, so it is all good. c
Good morning Celi! Oh boy, more tough choices but no guessing that I would have to choose “the cow and her cat” and really love the uniqueness of “Moaning Mia’s Moustache”. How sad that TonTon might have to be skipped this round – maybe you can do a set next time of just him!
🙂 Mandy
I will have to pass cow and cat with my team as I do not have the original anymore, that computer crashed and burned a lot of work, but we will work on it and see if we can bring it up to code. Fingers crossed. c
Good morning Ceci! I’m partial to Daisy in the doorway, her expression, her back-lit ear that I want to reach out and pet, and the beautiful aged barn wood. (Lighting and composition are strong and beautiful.) And Peghorn’s an amazing shot! I like very much too Moaning Mia’s mustache. I suppose it doesn’t help your process much when a person votes for three. You make it awfully difficult! 🙂 Have a wonderful day!
Oh it is great when people are decisive.. you have created a good solid list.. c
Kitties and cows? Oh yeah! Always go good together. 🙂 Lynda
Any chance of one of those marvelous butter churn photos? (remembered those at midnight…)
Of these, I’d say cow and cat.
I have considered the butter churn and also the coffee grinder, that is a good thought, what were you doing up at midnight?! c
Baby Girl with a bad cough…and a Grandmom with a runny nose.
The joys of having a preschooler in the house again… She’s happy as a clam this morning. I’m draggin’…
Forgot about the coffee grinder – those were great, too.
Love the farmy group. A calendar! now thats an excellent idea. Let me know if you have those made up I will buy one off you. It must be so difficult to choose from the photos. They truly are all amazing. Feel free to pop over and clean my floors!
Regards Florence x
At least I won’t have to scoop your floors!! c
Daisy dusk to dawn has always been one of my favs, and I’ll tell you a secret …. she’s been my laptop’s desktop image since the day you posted that story. I adore her.
The pegleg photo is also excellent. Brilliant colours.
wow. I am thrilled that Daisy is on your screen! That is such a compliment! c
Floor cleaning and postcards – sounds like a hectic time. Cow & cat gets my vote and please can I put my name down to buy a set if I´m not a lucky winner! This is all so exciting…. 🙂
Oh Tanya, that would be great! Of course you can buy a set -if TonTon does not choose your paper and no bribing the dog with treats!!. . celi
Ok, a quick peruse from the beginning, and I found these few more…Mary’s Cat guarding her dish of food, The Murphy on the car roof, the no recipe bread, and maybe one from the Evanston Farmer’s market? Even though technically not on the farm…
Ah yes, Mary’s cat is so determined in that shot and the naughty Murphy, these are good ideas Maggie. I shall put these on the list.. c
I love Peghorn! And Cow and Cat. But, honestly, it’s hard to select one from so many wonderful photographs. Good Luck!
I think Peghorn is IN! He will look lovely with the bees and the frog. Are you home yet Lois? I hope so.. c
So long as there are pics of Daisy, TonTon, the frog (done), the bee (done), Queenie, and Hairy, I’ll be happy. I will trust that my fellow bloggers will choose wisely and, most importantly, that TonTon will, too. 🙂
Yes, well TonTon and I need to do a little more work .. but he will make a choice in the end I am sure. Actually now that you mention it i do have a nice shot of Queenie and TonTon together, maybe I will see if I can find that! It was the first image ever so it also be quite poetic to include it.. stand by! c