Category: Living the life

• The quiet feathers

  

  After I dropped Hugo and his family at the railway station to begin their journey to Chicago, I drove all the way home to the farm again in an empty car. When I got home I stood in the drive and the silence was almost crushing.  I went inside to see if the silence was the same in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 27, 2015

  Life, Photography

  are peacocks noisy, peacock, peacock feathers, pregnant cows

• Nervous Mime

  Do you remember the story I wrote years ago called My Italian Housekeeper about when I lived in Italy and the housekeeper did not speak English and I did not speak Italian and she was terrifying but we got along just fine! Because she talked to me using her hands and her body and pointing…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 23, 2015

  Life, Photography

  judder bars, my italian housekeeper, visitors to the farm

• A French Apartment

  

  “There are wild turkeys out the front of your house,” said the FedEx man, his excitement palpable as he handed over  my new crepe pan that Hugo later deemed Too Small.  “Not wild” I said. “And that is why I have  No Shooting signs up”.  “Beautiful.” he said as he threw sticks for the dogs.  No…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 22, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Barn, gilts, hereford pigs, turkeys

• The Daily View

  

  Do you remember the year I spent taking a picture of the Daily View?  Every day. Here it is again. A lot has changed since that year. I need to go back and see what year that was.  But it is getting late and I have already spent to much time making my To Do list…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 21, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  blogging, farming, small farm farming

• Nothing like I thought they would be

  

  I said to Mad yesterday, in a comment, that the Spanish Black Turkeys are nothing like I thought they would be. I thought they would quietly slope about like a peacock. Roost in the same place every night like all the other birds. I thought they would sit in the trees and being such a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 16, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  celi, farming, Spanish Black turkeys, thekitchensgarden