Yesterday Camera house caught Daisy showing you how she backs slowly through the burlap bags dislodging flies. Very slowly.
Gently swaying through the lightest of brushes. Flies gone. Not perfect. But she is after all. A Cow.
We have a visitor come to stay. The Matriarch has gone to Georgia with Our John, so I have her dog.
He has been around long enough not to be afraid. But the piggies zeroed in on him as a possible dinner companion?
Poor Kupa. All his heavy brown tail feathers have gone now too. He is denuded.
Later no-one cares about visitors or dinner. Sleep is the order of the day.
Don’t my days just go on and on. Delicious.
After a very simple dinner of farm food we settled in for the evening.
Later in the night the storms came rolling in so the four dogs and I went out into the fields, walking the perimeter, trying to get shots of the lightening. It was dark, pitch black. All the images that follow are lit by lightening. The lightening here is more likely to light up the whole sky. No little forks of ice in the corner. It’s cousin the thunder goes on for hours. It goes without saying that all these shots are handheld.( My new tripod legs have arrived, I am waiting on the head).
Good morning. If you were to ask me for a favourite it would be the top one and the fourth one. I am completely in love with these shots. The night sky is an excellent challenge. Especially when there is no light but for the flash of a lightening sheet behind the clouds. Like when Mum used to snap out the white sheet so it floated flat and perfect down onto the bed.
I do hope you all have a lovely day. Ours will be a bit soggy after all the rain that followed the lightening. But rain is good.
I left all the lights on when I went walking in the night, so I could find me way back home.
your friend on the farm, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
72 responses to “visitors, burlap bags, pigs bottoms, lightening in the skies, where do I begin”
Now Celi, I don’t want to read that you’ve been struck by lightening chasing that perfect shot! You do have a beautiful sky as your photography muse, but I think you’re getting drawn into danger territory! LOL! W are going to have very high Santa Ana winds this weekend. Already this morning the air is a bit electric, and although it’s “fire weather” I can’t help but quite literally enjoy the atmosphere. It’s hard to take photos of wind!
Of all your photos, and I love them all, I think I enjoy the view you enjoy after dinner. Your days are so full, I can just imagine a settling of peace that would comfort you as the evening brings rest to all on the farmy. Wishing you a lovely weekend, and time for practicing you beautiful night sky photography. ox
That is one quick learner of a cow! She’s sooo clever. As for you, young lady, you’re a naughty girl going out in that storm when you didn’t have to. You could have been sizzled like my friend Maria’s internet router was the day before yesterday – and that was inside the house! Then what would we all do without our daily fix of farmy? We had a continuous sheet lightning storm last night as well – do you think it was the same storm?
The pix were brilliant, but not worth risking your life for…
Love,
ViV x
What a clever cow Daisy is; did you have to show her how to use the bags or did she figure it out on her own. I must get a better tripod as well, but them again my little iPhone 4S has more pixels than my old Canon! It would be nice to have a macro lense though!
I also would love a Macro… and if anyone has a telephoto lying about i would love one of those too for all the shots that are just too far away on the farm. but both of those are very expensive lenses.. morning Eva! c
We have a camera shop in Toronto where you can buy reconditioned used cameras and accessories; that’s where I got my Canon Rebel for a fraction of the cost. There’s probably one like that in the Windy City!
I need to have a look next time, bound to be somewhere.. c
I love reading everyone’s comments and knowing where they are living. I wish every body would announce “Here in…..” Gorgeous pictures of the sky. We had lots of lightning HERE IN CHICAGO, but little rain. And Daisy’s slooooooooooow moooooooootion through the sacks is hilarious.
morning darling from down here in south of chicago, we got an INCH of lovely rain, and so grateful, how did your big tree weather the summer?.. c
hmmmm…the other one didn’t post….try again.
I don’t do a lot of things great, but I do a lot of thinks ok…
I got this one a handful of years ago.
PS…Tell the 2 in georgia…the one weekend I will be coming through town and they are gone….
http://s616.photobucket.com/user/madohman/media/light.jpg.html
WOW, Mitch, that is fantastic, did you sit out there for hours to get it? Excellent work! i will tell those two, they will be disappointed.. hopefully next time!! c
I don’t think I was. There was a storm rolling through to the north. I started in the back yard, which is where that picture was. I ended up east of piper as I was following it trying to get more. think I had the shutter open for about 20 seconds.
I LOVE that next to last photo! I also so enjoyed the house all lite up ….. Now I want to try my hand at photos in the dark. I am not afraid of the dark, nor am I afraid of thunder and lightening, in fact I love to stay outside and let it buff me about. So I suppose I need to just ‘do it’!
Linda
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You can only get a bad shot then do it again, .. yup out you get with those dogs and wee what you can see. those mountains of yours would look amazing at night, go practise .. the full moon is coming in a few weeks! c
I used to like being outside watching a lightening storm, but since my hip was replaced I am a conductor so must take care. A young boy playing football in a park in Dublin was killed by lightening earlier in the year. He had metal pins in his arm from an injury and the lightening struck that arm. Do take care.
I will take off my silver bracelets then! Have a lovely evening grannymar.
Good idea to remove the bracelets, no point in tempting fate. I am having a very relaxing evening and might watch a movie!
Very smart way to remove flies!
these old people had the simplist answers..c
I’m with you on the yard light, ours still works but the dusk to dawn eye doesn’t so we have to flip the breaker if we want it on, (I don’t). My goat milking neighbors tell me you don’t want a billy on the premises if you milk. Something about it affecting the female’s hormones and altering the taste of the milk. When they need one they rent one and he comes to their place for a ‘visit’, Last time they shared the rent with two other goat owners, that guy covered a lot of ground!
Well that is good to know, I don’t want a billy goat at all! they are even smellier than a ram! thank you sherry.. c
That camera is the best gift I ever gave myself.
Love, love that you and me got this camera from you.. Just imagine.. good morning bill darling.. c
I can’t believe how quickly Daisy and Queenie figure out how to use the hanging sacks. What a relief for the two of them! It has always fascinated me at how much louder the storms seem out in the country. The rumble of a distant lout thunderclap, as it races over the countryside, is really something to experience. Looks like we’ve got more rain coming our way, along with a drop in temperatures. I only hope the rain holds off until I get through the farmers market tomorrow morning. I’ve run around that place in the rain before and, I have to admit, the wet look is not for me. 🙂
Love both the ‘Daisy Series’ [clever girl!!] and those of the lightning storm . . . but NO way would I dream of walking outside in that!!!! My position during a thunderstorm [after all electrical equipment turned off as ordered here] is usually on the bed with one head under a pile of pillows! Definitely not my comfort zone 🙂 ! Oh, it’s terrific that the Matriarch’s pup fits in with the other dogs and farmy animals: unless very old s[he] will become part of the farmy after all in the foreseeable time. My favourite photo: the last oner of the lit-up home ~ how wonderful you did not have an outage . . .
You had some bright flashes of lightning. Nice shots for being hand-held. That is a great shot of the house all lit up. Can’t have you getting lost in the corn. 😉
Love the sequence with Daisy and the sacks. Excellent.
Here in Northern NSW, Australia, we live on a ridge and thunder storms mean all appliances get switched off at the mains and I watch the lightning from the verandah, in awe at the power of mother nature. It is not unusual for us to have a large tree or two to be hit by lightning during a storm and I cannot help worrying about the koalas who have made our trees their home. No, you wont find me outdoors in a thunderstorm.