Category: Photography

• Do you believe in miracles and magic and angels?

  ‘This is weird.’ John said, as he trudged back from the house to the hay field. He had checked the weather again when he went inside to take his cherry pie out of the oven (the cherries are ripe!) . “It looks like every storm that is coming our way today hits something and kind…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 24, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  bring in the hay, farm, farm photographs, farming, hope, images, magic, piglets playing

• Gilts and Barrows – Goods and Bads

  A little girl pig is a gilt until she has babies then she is a sow, a little boy pig starts out as a boar and becomes a barrow after his wee operation. The Kitchens Garden Farmy officially has six barrows and 2 gilts. The barrows will sell for less than the gilts but are…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barrows, breeding hereford heifers, farming, G, gilts, piglets, raising pigs, wet hay

• Just when you thought it was safe

  Just when you thought it was safe. The piglets start to hide in the straw to keep the flies off. Charlotte and I had such a time yesterday trying to keep track of them all. And now I have to worry about their mother standing on them again. They are hidden in there. But at…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 21, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  blog photography, forcing mulberry to bud, piglets hiding in straw

• I can’t find Pania the Peahen .. now what could she be up to?

  Tui  the peahen is still on her nest (her eggs are due to hatch on July 2nd) and Pania the other peahen has slowly become more and more absent.  And now I have no idea where she is. There are a few more hiding places to search but Hmm… I think to myself. I wonder…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, celi, chickens, eggs, images, peahen, The kitchen’s garden

• Gentle mornings

  When I said good morning to you yesterday, this was the dawn I was seeing (above). Worth being a header I think?  After I had quietly fed Charlotte, visited Sheila, fed the chickens and moved the sheep to a new pasture,  and checked the cows, the dogs and I went for our walk around the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 19, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  fencing, hereford piglets for sale, leaning cow, old barn, tiny house