My first attempt at a real composition. This is not as simple as it looks. I can see everything that is wrong with each of these images and whats more I can see what to do to make the image better. And some areas are not too bad. I am taking notes!
I am looking forward to the Friday Pizza day so I can try again. This morning I am starting a Pizza Bianca. And the Fresh Cheese. Both of which take at least 24 hours. Impatience has no place in a world where we make everything from scratch. Like the vegetables I grow and the meat I grow, we do it slowly and gently.
This tomato has been nominated by Our John the heirloom tomato grower as coming from the perfect plant and so I will begin drying seeds from the perfect tomato from the perfect producing plant today. It is a Mortgage Lifter. My favourite this year has been Amish Paste. I shall be buying heirloom seeds from a tiny seed producer though. The people who keep our old fashioned heirloom seeds safe need some business to keep them safe.
The grapes are ready to harvest but there is no frost on the horizon. I need to decide whether to pick without a frost or wait for one and deal with more losses to the bird. I cannot call it ice wine if I do not have the cold freeze that concentrates all those sugars. But it is still a good wine grape. 
The bobble headed owls can only do so much in scaring away the birds.
This is the view of the barn and the rat house from the creek which is no longer a creek and is really a deep deep ditch.
Same position but looking South across the asparagus field and into the corn.
As usual Daisy is watching every move I make.
The chickens are producing anything from 19 – 24 eggs a day. I have a big flock so that the eggs can feed more than the house, they are the main protein for the pigs. It was Bulldog who suggested I pickle some. He used to make them all the time evidently, even packs jars of them when he goes bush in Africa.
Good Morning. Here is our neglected Daily View. Like I said, things grow slowly on the Farmy.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Take great care of yourselves and your people, remember – there is kindness everywhere. We need to keep our eyes open for it. Kindness does not beat a drum for attention. But it is contagious.
Your friend on the farmy, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
86 responses to “Pickled Eggs and Food Photography”
Such attractive outlooks – and if the food looks as yummy as that, then the photos are good.
I was wondering if the owls could be supplemented with bird-like kites, tethered on short running lines having a slight weight at the end and running through ring at the top of the bush/tree, so that they take off and hover with wind, and then settle on the top again?.
Sounds like an excellent idea, i will find some for next year, I shifted the owls again today and the grapes have a short reprieve.. c
Hi Celi
Lovely pic of The Daily View! Everything looks so healthy, growing, and happy….and the angle of the sun tells us it is autumn…beautiful! And thanks for the new “kitty pic”….it’s going right to my desktop! 🙂
Such a lovely walk-around of places we may have missed for some time. The Daily View is definitely autumnal: remember when we had to choose which one we wanted to see last year and this one won! And am so glad to have your aerial farmy photo next to my computer ~ know exactly where you stood to take the barn/rat house pics. And silly billy me, thought your laying hens ran totally free around the paddock during the day!! Have fun with the pizza challenge tomorrow . . .
The laying hens come out in the afternoon, but are in their pen in the day until i have all the tomatoes and grapes picked! They go through the gardens like a swarm, so they only come out in the late afternoon then they do not wander far. Soon they will have the door opened until next spring.. c
Thank you, Milady! I hope other ‘city slickers’ learn from this too . . . another ‘tick’ for me 🙂 ! ni-ni . . .
What a beautiful place to live
Of course Daisy keeps an eye on you. You’re her person! I think the animals love you as much as you love them.
I felt so happy to see the daily view again – it was like a homecoming. And it looks so green and healthy. Love the cat shop, and am enjoying your photo experiments.
I was on the beach today with my sand shovel and a few extras. You might enjoy this bit of creative play:
http://seasonalinspiration.blogspot.co.nz/2013/09/did-persephone.html
I meant to say ‘cat shot’ of course!
of course.. c
Grannymar! I love your pup! I laughed so hard when you described how Buffy jumped up and growled willing to take on that tiger! I haven’t seen that movie yet! My Maisy loved the Air Bud movies! LOL Thank you for making me smile!
I have to say, your photography is looking wonderful! Well done xx
I’ve never tried pickled eggs before, what a gorgeous vibrant colour they are!
with the farm egg orange yolk it is a pretty wild combination!