Category: homesteading

• Pickled Eggs and Food Photography

  My first attempt at a real composition. This is not as simple as it looks. I can see everything that is wrong with each of these images and whats more  I can see what to do to make the image better.  And some areas are not too bad. I am taking notes! I am looking…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 26, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  food photography, grapes, old barn, pickled eggs, wine

• Life is One Great Big Exciting Challenge

  The September Home Grown Challenge.   Yes, I am still eating off the farm and have decided that when I do this for a year (feed myself only from my own farm) it will be BOREDOM that gets to me in the end.  I do have food, but it is the same food over and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 24, 2013

  Farming, Gardening, homesteading

  beetroot, farming, food photography, The kitchen’s garden, the september home grown challenge

• Food Photography is not my Forte – (doesn’t mean I can’t learn though)

  You may have guessed that I am now determined to improve my food photography. Winter is coming (don’t tell anyone I said that though) and there will be more time to make new feeds from all the food I am storing in the cellar, and share the results with you. And doing something well is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cow with pink eye, farm photography, food photography, hereford cow

• Sunflowers are not for sissies

  A cheerful scene. Not autumnal at all. Though I am very fond of that word   – autumnal. Sunflowers are not for sissies.  And judging by yesterdays comments there are no sissies in our Fellowship.  Of course flowers would have been enough for a Sunday post. But the morning light was so beautiful yesterday. Our…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 22, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  conjunctivitis in cows, garming, homesteading, pink eye in cattle, small scale farming, sunflowers, sunflowers and bees

• Burrs on my Boots

  Well not really boots but like as not I am out in the fields wearing these little slippers, the slip on nature of slippers suits my lazy nature.  Though I end up with multiple muddy  pig-kisses to scrub off my legs before bed. The long hot days of summer argue with my gumboots. Though I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 20, 2013

  Farming, Gardening, homesteading, Life, Photography

  apples, gardens, kale, raising broiler chickens on grass, shoes, storm in the night