Category: Photography

• Vegetable garden gone. Frost. Blink. Frost. Gone.

  Daily sweetness.  Marmalade Cat (to be – still Marmalade Kitten really) and Boo-Nanny.  Not enough yet? Let’s have a double wammy. The Marmalade kitten creeping up on Boo Nanny. The most obvious ambush in the world. Wee kittys .. um..toilet is becoming more normal so we are going outside three or four times a day…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 24, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  cats dogs, celi, cow, farm animals, frosted vegetable gardens, hoop house, kittens and dogs, life, living the life, sheep, sustainable farming, The kitchen’s garden

• Daisy puts her foot down

  It rained, no snow but big slushy droopy mushy plops that looked like they had been hurled out from the murky clouds by a vast muddy shaking dog. And it was cold. Wet and cold. A wintry day.  By afternoon I decided to throw down some extra straw and let the animals into the barn.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  autumn, cold weather, cows, fall, guinea fowl, pigs, sheep

• And so the cold comes..

  But not to all of us.  Some of us get to lay about in the sun and play. While the rest of us work. More walnuts, I will dry them for cakes. Walnuts are very high in protein. First though, it is important to take the hull off so they don’t go moldy. Then I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 22, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  autumn, black walnuts, chickens in the barn, kitten and dog pictures, The Daily View

• Shall we go for a drive? Just around a couple of blocks.

  A wee wander down the lanes? As you know I am in central Illinois. It is flat here.. VERY flat. When you live on such flat plains, geometric shapes become more and more apparent. Do you see what I mean? And when we see a nice round bin it becomes almost restful to the eye.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 21, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  dead mouse smellls, dog drinking, fields of corn, old school house, positive attitudes win

• Yes, that is a Marmalade Kitten climbing onto a BooNanny’s head

  Look at this tiny Marmalade Cat.. climbing up onto Boo Nannys head.  Boo stays very still and then very slowly turns his imploring eyes to me with a ‘how long can this go on’ look. Long time Boo, sorry buddy. The Duke of Kupa knows that this warm sunshine is on the wane so he…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cows on grass, dead mouse, kitten on dogs head, pigs and sheep on grass, pigs sleeping with chickens, The Duke of Kupa