It was warm enough yesterday to once more walk down the familiar track alongside the Creek that is really a Ditch-
– to the Farm across the Way. We have not done this walk in months and it felt Marvellous.
This familiar sight once more. The big white barn.
This is the Point of View from the White barn looking back to the home farm.
Below: This Image is for Jean. It is called Man Walking. This is one of the few I will print and put on my own wall.
John did not much like the track as it was still covered in snow. So he took the low road and the dogs and I (and Camera House) took the high road (it is up on bank of the ditch so it stands to reason that it is the High Road.) But we got this shot. It says it all. Life is a journey. Go for a walk along your life.
Good morning. Poppy is not in Standing Heat quite yet, though she is in foaming-at-the-mouth-bash-stuff-and-run-away heat. We will have another look in the morning – but she is close.
And this afternoon the Shearer is coming. Then we will have our last wool clip. Last year I got 4 dollars a fleece. So I am keeping this wool and I will send it to a mill to be cleaned and carded and spun into yarn. Then I am thinking I might make a blanket, when? I am not terribly sure! I wish I could weave – wouldn’t that be cool!
I hope you are all going to find loveliness today.
Your friend on the farm
celi
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48 responses to “Man Walking”
I can’t believe how flat the land is there! How did a New Zealand girl end up in such flat country?
Pat – prayers for Gracie. I feel for you. Any time one of my pups is sick I am sicker. I can’t take it. I have no stomach for an ill or injured dog. Right now I am anxiously awaiting cataract surgery for Rudy who just turned 17 last week. He needs the surgery badly – he does not do well blind. At. All. The heart and anesthesiology vets said that the level of anesthesia for eye surgery will be a total breeze for Rudy. He’s a healthy boy. But my heart is in my stomach and I pace pace pace until it is over – March 31. I will pray for you and Gracie every time I pray for me and Rudy.
Thank you Lacey. 17 – wow! Gracie is 10 tomorrow. These pet companions are so much a part of our daily lives…. It is the lucky person who has the love and devotion of a pet! Prayers for Rudy!!!
That Poppy is one feisty pig!!!
When I was in boarding school I made a runner to put next to my bed using different color sheep wool ( brown and white) . Unfortunately you need a loom that is set up with strong cotton yarn. You tear strings of washed wool (not yarn) and weave them into the cotton yarn. This is easy to do and you end up with a soft beautiful rug. I still have the rug after so many years.
Wise of you to send the wool off for the carding and spinning. One year I attempted to take the wool from sheep to sweater all on my own…after the picking and carding and cleaning and spinning I couldn’t bring myself to actually make anything with it. Nevermind that I didn’t have nearly enough…
If you do make something, you’ll have to show us!
What are you planning on doing with your sheep?
Linda ★★
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they will be sold, probably to the man on the ridge.. still in the process of finding a buyer actually, but i cannot have sheep AND goats.. the parasites are too close..c
The Man Walking image is hauntingly beautiful.
I wish you’d take lots of pictures of the shearing, Cecilia!
This will be your third shearing won’t it? And yes i will take pictures in between sheep moving and such.. They are in their pen chewing and waiting.. c
Celi, I meant to tell you that I love that picture of the Man walking the country side ~ he wants some fresh air again! and of course the shot of Poppy going nuts!! She looks like a dog barking like crazy!
Wow C. That shot of Man Walking is stunning!
I love the photo of the lone man walking in the distance. It is reminiscent of many beaches on the east coast of Ireland where the tides go out a long way leaving puddles or a mirage effect.
Is it my imagination, or does that piggy wiggy in the last photo, seem to be standing differently ( remember I am a city gal born and bred!) to me the hind legs seem to be wide apart… ready for action!
I can see why you would want that print on your walls Miss C. I want it too
What a difference a day makes! Beautiful to be out with you and the Camera House. Actually I love the photo looking back at the totality of the farmy: in my time with you I don’t think I have seen the proportions of all the buildings so clearly. And look at those kitties enjoying their play 🙂 !
You re right Eha, that is a Point of View I do not photograph often enough.. (and certainly not in winter) – for all the images you and I process I keep forgetting the wider views..c
Fantastic pictures of John and Poppy 😉
OMG Mad . . . it took me three scrolls to ‘find’ the first: depends on the angle at least in my case 🙂 !! Of course the ‘title’ should have made my peabrain work!!
Peabrain indeed: methinks he may be ‘walking’ on the one above also . . . the one which I was sussing out and talking about, idiot child!!
Never .. i am off to bed.. ni ni eha mama
I can’t believe spring is only in 10 days!
who told you that! Well it better spring then, this Spring.. c