Category: Life

• OK, just one more! Then back to work!

  One more story. Just one and then we HAVE to get back to farming. Spring fever starts in the autumn you know and I have to get out the calenders and charts and do some planning. Then open and shut some gates.  So, one more story and then back to work. We are going to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 17, 2011

  Life, Photography, Travel, Vines and Wine

  Catholic, cats, church, cows, dogs, gold mining, hot, kumara, new zealand, summer

• Coyotes and Wild Dogs in the Moonlight.

  Last night something died in the cornfield. In the night a dreadful sound woke me and I came fully awake  standing barefoot out in the middle of our little home field.  The sounds of dogs were everywhere.  Two huge herons erupted noisily from the tall tree above me, startling us with irritated calls. They tucked…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 16, 2011

  Farm Animals, Life, Living the life

  cornfield, coyotes, listening, wild dogs

• my italian housekeeper

  The story of my Italian Housekeeper. When I worked in Italy, years ago, we rented an enormous house on the Amalfi Coast, very close to Amalfi, right on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Mediterannian.  It had six terraces, with heavy marble tables on each one and a pool right on the edge of…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 15, 2011

  Life, Meals, Photography, Recipes, Travel

  amalfi coast, aubergine, eggplant, Italian, mozzerella, parmesan, tomatoes, travel

• Heirloom Tomatoes- A Man’s Munch.

  Every Christmas Our John studies the seed catalogues, makes lists, loses the lists, makes more lists, studies more catalogues then finally orders piles of tomato seeds. He orders all kinds of other seeds as well but the tomato for him is the Major Crop.  This is the mans plant. A man’s munch.  In late February…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 14, 2011

  Life, Living the life, Preserving, Recipes

  food, heirloom, insalata recipe, mans munch, tomato conserva, tomato pie, tomatoes

• The Good News and The Bad News

  First the BAD NEWS.  While fooling about with my newly extended lens yesterday I managed to scratch the lens.  I just cannot believe I did that. A strong line was curved across every image I took yesterday.  I cannot clean the mark away.  Senior Son has put his thinking cap on but from now until…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 13, 2011

  Bees, Farm Animals, Life, Photography

  Ayrshire, bee image, butter mold, camera, cow, lens