Category: Farm Animals

• Butt-heads Butt Heads

  This morning shot is for yummy chunklet who loves to see the sky and does not see much of it, marooned up there in the big city! The sun was still so low it was obscured by the Rat House.  And a rose by any other name.. is a rose whose name I cannot remember but…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 3, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  head butts, water barrels, white rose, writers desk, writing competition

• Working alone on the farmy

  Working alone on a farm has its challenges and its dangers.  Though you would not know that there are any hidden dangers from the little collection of images we see today.  And the little farm is managed in a low tech sustainable manner so my use of machinery is kept to a minimum. My tractor…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 29, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  barns, cell phone, farm photography, ladders, life, safety on the farm

• Peach Ice Cream and Hot Black Tea

  Taken together. One in a little blue hand thrown pottery bowl and one in an antique porcelain blush pink tea cup. Alternate swallows. The perfect complement.  I have this combination every night lately as I load our photographs. One must be very hot to know the extreme cold of the other.  The sweetness raising  the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 2, 2012

  Farm Animals, Sustainable farming

  Barn, Evanston farmers market, farm, happy and sad

• Summer rhythm

  We are now finally settling into a summer rhythm. After all the births and the weanings and the schedules. The setting up and taking down and setting up again. the milking, the feeding,  the cooking and the gardening move in and out, giving and taking a little, but basically the days are settled  into a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 14, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  cows, farm days, honey bees, muscles on arms, sheep, summer, summer rhythms

• No thank you, my pigs are vegetarians!

  Minty wants to show you her new friend. She is an old friend to us but new to Minty. Wait, stay right there my new friend is around here somewhere.  Now where did my friend go? I know I have one.  Mama  said not to wander too far. But.. is she over there? Here she…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 10, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  pigs trotters, poo bum, vegetarian pigs, writing a blog book