Category: Photography

• I accidently took a photo of my foot

  You see it was hot.  Lovely-delicious-hot not dreadful-out-of-control hot. 96F (35C). I gave the pigs a fan. Thank you Missie!  Sheila thought it was just lovely but would not share so Charlotte went to stand in her water container. Smug pig. I swear if that pig stood up on her hind legs she would be…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  farming pigs, gardening, hammock, how to keep pigs cool, pigs in the heat, weeds for chickens

• A Dandelion Walk and the Roof Shout

  Blue the Mouth is big enough for the longer walks now, and like a child he needs a good solid walk each day, so TonTon and I took him on the Dandelion Walk to the bridge this morning.  We mow a little path through the wild grasses along the creek bank. Blue was excited on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 17, 2013

  Farming, Photography

  farming, homesteading, photography, roof shout

• Hot right to the bones

  So hot in fact that I took off my farm trousers half way through the day and dug out my short farm skirts. It was delicious to free my legs again. Daisy made no comment, other than politely asking for sunglasses to protect her delicate eyes from the blinding white of my pale legs. The…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 15, 2013

  homesteading, Photography

  animals seeking shade, peony, the origins of the peony

• The Fight of the Frisbee

  TonTon and Blue. Dogs playing with a frisbee. Or is it really play? Bugger. Says Ton.  The boy never gives up. The unDaily View. Good morning. I hope you all have some loveliness in store for you today. It is pretty windy out here already this morning (very bendy tree) but thats OK  – the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 14, 2013

  Humour, Photography, Tiny House

  dogs and frisbees, dogs playing with a frisbee, photography, tiny house

• Free days – when the farm feeds the farm.

  There is something deeply satisfying about eating a meal from your own land, in a room you created. Home grown, grass fed steak, with asparagus from down the back and hollandaise using my own eggs and butter, a salad from the garden, cheese from Daisy’s milk followed by rhubarb from the garden and home made…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 13, 2013

  Farm Animals, homesteading, Photography

  cultivating the rows, eating off the land, farming, homesteading, images, mothers day, self sufficiency, sustainable life, walking the beans