Category: Photography

• WIND LIKE A BLOW-TORCH

  

  ALL DAY YESTERDAY and all the day before that the wind blew hard and hot. Like a blow torch. My skin was black with dust and my hay fever was out of control. The storms and rain last night was very welcome. Though Boo jumping onto the bed when the thunder rolled was not so…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 3, 2018

  Farming, farmphotography, Gardening, Photography

  ducklings, featured, hot winds, magnolia, old sow, pigs, weather

• EVERYONE IS OUT

  

  WELL, Almost everyone.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 1, 2018

  farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  ducklings, farming, pasture, pigs, thekitchensgarden

• SAD FROZEN ASPARAGUS

  

  THE Asparagus spears keep pushing their heads above ground only to be frozen by the recurring frosts. Last night it was not meant to freeze but once again the temperatures drifted slowly down past a reasonable temperature. Our patch of land is the lowest for miles around so it gathers here.  Like gas seeking the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 30, 2018

  Photography

• HOW RUDE

  

  A FIELD of thistles needed hoeing yesterday so Wai and the dogs and the hoe and I got to work and hand hoed the whole area. I am going to learn how to sow seed myself as this weedy patch is the direct result of no cover crop in there for the winter. The pigs…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 28, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  countryliving, farming, pig pasture, pigs, saturday, seed, weather

• TXIKI SAYS NO

  

  TXIKI decided not to go with the herd when I moved the cows on the West Side into the pigs paddock, yesterday. She kept walking to the gate then turning tail and rushing back to the safety of the barn. All day she stayed on the other side, eschewing the fresh new albeit short grass…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 27, 2018

  Photography

  countrylife, cows, farming, farmphotography, life, sustainable, weather