Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther

• Snow as Art, An award, and yes, a wee story

  All my favourite artists have an ability to disconnect from the present and plunge out into the future and their art. This is why I love snow after the storm. As an artist Miss Nature is brutal, selfish and startling.  She is very fond of mixed media too. She is my favourite artist today. A…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 14, 2012

  Writing

  alliteration, awards, cold, new zealand, school days, wordscorridors

• Hiding Out from the Blizzard in The Barn

  It is 14F (–10C) this morning. Snow on the ground. Yesterday we were locked inside  with a blizzard hurling itself around outside. It was about 18F all day.  Snow flew in swirls through the fields past the buildings and straight out across the plains.  It seemed very certain of its path that  snow.  We were…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire heifer, Barn, cows, hereford calf, interiors, midwest, snow

• How to take beautiful photographs for your blog with an ordinary camera

  I am an ordinary photographer, with an ordinary old Nikon.  Nothing special. No fancy pancy.  People say to me  “How do you do that?  What kind of camera do you have?”  So I thought I would jot down a few of the things I have learnt about taking photographs. I don’t want to sound arrogant.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 12, 2012

  Photography, Writing

  blog, clarity, contrast, how to take blog photo, image, somposition

• The Original Mumma Munch Recipe

  What do you mean you can’t read that! This is the recipe my mother wrote into my recipe book years ago, before she died.  Well, obviously Before she died, I mean, if she had written it After  she had died this would be a very different story!! Anyway, this was before cell phones and computers…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 11, 2012

  Recipes, Sustainable farming

  healthy, Home Made granola bars, Muesli Bars, Mumma Munch

• Foolishly depending on a Frost and seeking the Red of a Barn.

  You see we have had such lovely crunchy frosts the last few days and I decided last night, in all my wisdom, that this morning I would get out the macro and slither across the freezing ground and shoot through the frosted garden into the glow of a rising sun. Oh what heavenly shots  of…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2012

  Farming

  Red Barns