Category: Farming

• 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

• “You’ve strangled me?” I said to the nice man, moving Moaning Mia out of the way with my hip.

  “Throttled. Yes Ma’am.”  “So.. TonTon I cannot play with your ball from in here! Think about what you are doing! Mia stop that, stop jumping! Wait.” I said to the little man.  “Mia,  Get OUT of the chook house. I have got to fix this door. Stop that, this is a phone not a toy.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Sustainable farming

  bees, cow, farm animals, internet, sheep, winter

• When The Cat Won’t Play: on the Farmy

  The whole farmy has turned camera shy all of a sudden.  Yesterday afternoon TonTon and I took the camera on our rounds,  but the sun fell in behind massive clouds, the light dropped and no-one would co-operate.    TonTon hoped to see a decent Play Cat-Fight , but even Thing Two was totally lacking in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 5, 2012

  Humour, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Cat fight, Frost on the windows, Kitty Play

• How to make Raw Apple Cider Vinegar whilst pretending that this is what you wanted to make all along!

  This morning is 9F  (minus 12 C).  Clear and cruely cold.   All the animals are fed and watered and I have opened all the barn doors as the sun is shining.  A juxtapostition of the senses that I could not hang in a gallery.    It is a stunning, fiercely cold, bright and  sunny…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 3, 2012

  Farming

  apple cider vinegar, farming in the freezing cold, how to

• All Dawns are Not Born Equal.

  Dawn shot. Not enough light and snow driving sideways. It stings your face that snow.  19F which is minus7.2C.   Note the MINUS as we head out the door.  I don’t like the minus.  This morning, I have discovered that if you have a sneezing fit out in the barn in that kind of cold…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 2, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Barn, Images of snow falling, old dodge truck, photography, sheds, snow