Category: homesteading

• A drop. A Promise.

  We are surrounded in white on white, cold on cold, the hunch and squeak of boots on packed snow beginning to sound like fingernails on a black-board made for chalk.   The night before last was -11 (-23C), last night was -21( -30C).  As I write just before dawn the temperature  continues  on its toboggan…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 11, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cats in snow, farming in the deep cold, melting ice, pig in snow, sheep, snow, winter

• Sheila the Pig carrying her Bowl

  I had just taken this shot of Queenie Wineti standing knee deep in snow enjoying the sun when I was almost run down by Sheila carrying her lunch inside.  We were on a pause, Sheila was standing in the snow eating her medicine mixed with shredded apples and carrots. I was standing in the doorway…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 10, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  celi, cow in snow, pig carrying bowl, pigs doing tricks, sunrise time, thekitchens garden, training pigs

• Meadow in the Snow

  Yesterday was a snowy day but a very calm one. We seem to be drifting down  into a sentient state, exacerbated by the inability to move about freely,  where everything is felt and only just heard, like a song sung  by an unnamed stranger far off down the road, its message just out of reach,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 9, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  dog playing, pregnant ayrshire cow, pregnant ewes, watching pregnant sheep

• you did not believe me?

  Here, in my unheated bedroom. ICE on the inside of the double glazed windows. Makes me feel right at home. I have never lived in a house with heated bedrooms anyway.  Now whenever you see those silly christmas decorations with the sprayed-on ice around the glass, you can say. I don’t think you really want…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 8, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  ice on windows, pig, snow

• The Kat.

  Scrapper can look cute too.. sometimes. Snow looks cute, sometimes, not when Man Meets Snow though. Then snow loses its lovely smooth forms and is knocked into shape, just not a shape I like.  Yesterday was very cold, after  the weather had got over its problems at dawn it rose to just above 0F.  So…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 7, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  barn cats, cats, chickens in barn, cnow, kat, sheep, snow removal