Category: Life

• Bees and Bees and Baby Bumps

  So much good news. I was clearing the bees doorway yesterday afternoon.  It was above freezing and such a beautiful day without a breath of wind. I put my ear to the beehive and there they were, making their disapproval  known with a deep far away baseball cheer of buzzing. Good bees. Later in the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 13, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bees, cows, cows with bump out to the side, pregnant cows

• Light Sun. Sunlight

  The sun poured all over the little farm and all her creatures yesterday. Molten golden light of sun. The house warmed right up. Ah, we all said, who cares about the house?.. and stayed outside too long. Making tracks to and fro in the snow. Chatting.  Sheila was being very vocal yesterday.  Quite the Queen.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 12, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  pig and cows, snow, winter on the farm

• 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