Category: Photography

• A highly strung Sow

  Good morning. There is always a day once in a while when I struggle for words.  Today is such a day. I sit in my study, listening to the three dogs and four cats stir as they  shuffle about exchanging places on the verandah, waiting for the day to start with my appearance. The chorus…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 26, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  black hollyhock, chicken is grass, pigs in muck, sows stepping on piglets

• Is this your hat?

  Boo the Savage is the great returner of found objects. The Verandah is a litter of interesting finds, like a little boys pockets but with a canine influence. I forgot to tell you yesterday that Queenie (who would not look at you for a photograph) was bred by The Lady Vet on Sunday. Easily too…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 25, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  Blue Heeler, celi, farm photographs, hay, sweet corn, The kitchen’s garden, vegetable garden

• 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