Category: Living the life

• Shopping as Therapy? Nope.

  

  I know that when many women go shopping they will look at shoes (and yes I do need a new pair of warm gumboots for the winter), or new underwear (reaching for a rag in the milking room yesterday there was a pair of my knickers on top of the pile – they are getting…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 20, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  all is well, cows, farming, just quiet that is all, women who farm

• Silence made Simple

  

  Silence made Simple by Sheila. I hope you have a lovely day. celi  

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 19, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  birds, farming, peahens, prairies

• Finding my way back

  

  Many things have been happening to people around me in the lately, so much sadness and injustice and tragedy, and though the farm and I are fine – many of the best people in my life are struggling and sad. This left me with no words for the last few days. So I am finding…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 18, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  farming, life, loss, sadness, thekitchensgarden

• Out on the grass

  

  I always feel better when the animals can get right out on the grass – into the air and the dirt. The babies of the farm especially need to be able to lie in the grass on a warm day. Yesterday we extended the cattle fence – lower of course – so that we could…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 15, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  hereford piglets, peahens, piglets, sweet potatoes

• Room in there for me?

  

  I asked Sheila. Is there room in there for me. She said, yes but would not move over so I had to climb over her big body and scrunch myself into a corner of her house. It was warm and calm in there and Sheila smelled nice so I stayed a while. Every now and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 14, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  farm photography, farming, peacock, photography, piglets, pigs, thekitchensgarden