Category: Photography

• Desperately Seeking Beautiful

  I looked for loveliness yesterday and found it everywhere. BooBoo doing his best to be lovely! Big Dog is always lovely. I find peacock feathers in the strangest places. Only the short ones now, all Kupa’s long feathers are in a vase catching the morning sun through the windows. Charlotte is trying her best to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  appples, celi, dog photography, dogs, hereford sow, life on a farm, peacock feathers, The kitchen’s garden

• Somebody has been playing with Skunks

  The Old Codger says that TonTon thinks skunks are his long lost brothers being Black and White and all. NO Ton they may be pretty but they are laughing at you. TonTon hates the skunk off. But it is the only thing that will take out the smell. I put up an electric fence in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 9, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  farm dogs, herding pigs, hereford piglets, preserving and dehydrating, summer sauce, tomato sauce

• The Man at the Gate

  The man was well dressed and nervous. He was standing on my lawn blocked by barking dogs as I stepped out onto the verandah. “Alright if I give treats to your dogs?” He called out with his back to the shiny late model city slick car. ‘Down’  I signalled and both dogs dropped like stones…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 8, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Stories, Vines and Wine

  excalibur dehydrator, farming for health, health insurance, muddy pigs, The kitchen’s garden, tomato basil jam, wine, writing

• Long Shots, giggly piglets and bottles of beer.

  This is the lane from the house to the gravel road. We are looking East. On the right which is the South side is the sweetcorn with the Maize up behind it. You can see how tall the maize (field corn) is when you see my tractor in front of it. Also look at how…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 7, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  celi, dogs, farm life, photography, raising pigs, The kitchen’s garden

• An Angry Sow is not to be trifled with

  Early in the morning as the dawn is dawning I take the tractor out into the sweetcorn field and pick two big bucket loads for the animals. I cut the stalk at the base with my sharp spade and throw the sweetcorn, with its stalk still attached, over the fences.  They eat the whole thing.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 6, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  feeding sweetcorn to cows, feeding sweetcorn to pigs, fighting pigs, weaning piglets