Category: Farming

• SNOW GEESE

  

  The snow white geese flew overhead in a huge cloud, kept low by the gray heavy sky.  There were hundreds of them.  Calling like gulls after a fishing boat.  The large group circled around a field of water dropping lower and lower. Spiraling down and dropping, one by one as they laid their bodies in rows…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 25, 2018

  Farming, Photography

  countrylife, farming, flooding, migrating geese., mud, snow geese

• WORKING TOWARDS SPRING

  

  Believe it or not there are signs that the seasons are changing. Slowly – slowly. The icy muck tells us that the struggle between winter and summer has begun. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 22, 2018

  Farm Animals, Farming, Photography

  cows, farming, farmlife, ice and rain, pasture, pigs, sowing seeds, spring plans, weather

• THE WATER HOLE

  Yesterday was divided between long periods of sitting waiting as I flew impossibly through the sky and then short periods with long corridors of full out “excuse me!, coming through”! RUNNING.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 21, 2018

  Farming, Travel

  farming in the cold, travel, weather

• WATCHING

  

  Boo and the cats have an arrangement. They don’t run – he won’t chase them. But he still watches them very carefully in case someone wants to play. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 12, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  countryife, drying up the cow, farming, farmlife, flaxseeds, making butter, milking, udder

• SUGARING SOON

  

  While we were embracing (somewhat reluctantly) snowfall after snowfall over the last week or so I spent more time than usual in the kitchen.  I get hungry when I am stuck inside. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 11, 2018

  Farm Animals, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cold, countrylife, farming, farmlife, maples, snow, sugaring, survival, tree planting, winter