Category: Photography

• The Winter Weather of Extreme Dreariness

  Ice was clinging to the trees as I went out to milk yesterday morning. Not a lot though and only a little snow.  No-one minded.  There was just enough ice in the trees to fill the air with the noise of … cracking and sliding and slipping as the ice melted slightly and released its grip…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cows in snow, ice and snow, kefir grains, lambs, ram in snow, raw milk, the winter of dreariness

• The Goldilocks Windows

  Designing and building a tiny self contained house disguised as a wing, with a chicken coop as its influence,  has been both a challenge and a delight.  Of course I am not doing the actual building. I was speaking metaphorically. The Kiwi Builder is doing all the building with a sure input to the structural…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 22, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Tiny House

  Barn, building a tiny house, hammer, home shcooling, ice storm, milk for lambs, peacock images, windows

• Lambs: A Photographic Essay

  Yesterday had horrible weather.   The wind was so strong and so cold yesterday that a few times I walked backwards from the house to the barn rather than have my face blown off. But thats OK, the Kiwi builder was on the other side of the house so he did not see. But the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  bearing the cold, black and white, handwarmers, lambs, newborn lambs, photography

• Home Made Peanut Butter, Home Made Laundry Powder, a Home Made Life

  Home made is my favourite way because the ingredients in anything should be recognisable or at the very least readable. And if I make something myself then I know for sure what I am eating or using.  I just don’t trust store bought. Only some ingredients have to be on the label. Some origins and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 18, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, home made laundry powder, home made peanut butter, homesteading, sheep gestation period, the kkitchens garden, washing powder

• Kupa shows his bad side.

  All my city clothes were peeled off, stepped out of, abandoned and dropped in snail heaps on the bedroom floor as I morphed back into miss c. I will pick them all up later I promise but I was late for chores and everyone was calling. They knew they could use my guilt about being…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 17, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  farm life, homesteading, kittens, peacock, sunset