Category: Photography

• Looking after our canopy of trees

  On the North side of the barn is a smallish field. A loafing field really. It is directly behind the pig sty. We rolled the last two bales of mississippi grass hay through the pig sty and out to the North side, positioning them with difficulty at either end, then built a fence down the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 30, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  firewood, hay, late winter, loafing fields, tree gods

• SUN!

  Sorry, did not mean to shout. SUN. Oops there I go again! but we had the most perfect sunny windless day. Naturally I opened all the windows and doors and spent most of the day outside. That is Tilly on the right, well you knew that, she is still into the panda eyes look. She…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 29, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  celi, daffodil shoots in snow, early spring, hot chocolate, no grass yet, patience, red truck, rooster, the kitchens garden farmy, views of the farm, waiting

• The receding snow line

  Sorry had to say it – because the snow is receding as slowly as an old man’s hair to reveal a bald man’s pate. A moonscape. Beige with a hint of sepia is still the colour of the day.     John is in Missouri, where they have green grass under their snow by the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  animal photography, farm photography, hereford heifer, lambs in the snow, snow

• Comparing bellies

  Piles of snow. Wonderful. All day yesterday it resolutely melted into the fields. Good snow.    Of course now I am watching Charlotte like a hawk for any signs of pregnancy. Which belly do you think is the pregnant one.  Charlotte is just over four weeks pregnant now. Maybe it is a little too early…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 26, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  dogs in barn, newly pregnant hereford pig, peacock and guinea, snow images

• Can pigs get morning sickness?

  Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering.  Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect. I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn cat, old barn, pigs, pregnant pig, snow, snow pictures