Category: Life

• A Poll, to Vote for the Vista

  This poll is for all of you to vote on the view you would most like to see every day for a year. Remember we wil always have the usual assortment of animal and farmy shots, the food and the stories and the gardens. This shot will not be cleaned up at all. It will…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 30, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  blogging, hereford heifer, one shot a day, photography on the farm, The kitchen’s garden

• Wherever I am – You are.

  I was thinking, as I was working in the barn yesterday on the Winter Quarters, Bills Camera snuggled safely in the White Box where Things Live, at hand for that shot, that you follow wherever I am on each day.  You cannot wander off and look at stuff that interests you.  So if I am…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 29, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Barn, calf, cat, farm photography, hereford pigs, telling a story

• The Winter Quarters

  There comes a time in the year when I must accept that winter is coming and I have to start getting The Farmy prepared.  Not that I am giving up on summer quite yet you understand.  But the cold winters here are deeply unforgiving of a casual attitude.  It was a beautiful late summer day…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 28, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  autumn colour, chain saw, firewood, guineas, pigs, road works, tomatoes, winter pig pen, winter preparation

• Walkabout on the Farmy.

  Morning darlings. Our walkabout yesterday started on the North side. My favourite view of the barn. After the milking Daisy and Queenie walk out to their new field.  I let ut the Shush Sisters  (this is Charlotte)  and we went and visited Hairy MacLairy on the left and Mama on the right.  You can see…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 27, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  farm animals, farming, must rush, slept in

• Wonderful Glorious People

  I received a gift in the mail yesterday.  A most wonderful gift. A new set of camera eyes.  Bill Jones Jr, the author of The Stream Series, whose comments you will have seen  in our comments lounge, has become increasingly concerned about my endless camera troubles. So he sent me his Nikon D90. A most…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 26, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  blogging, calf, cows, kindness, Nikon D90, old barn, peacock feather