Category: Photography

• Rain. Rain falling with a relieved sigh.

  I know some of you are expecting snow but we had hours and hours of rain yesterday and OH it was glorious. Quiet, firm and even heavy at times.  All the animals stood out in it. I was milking an unrepentant, dripping wet cow. The fields are waterlogged. The troughs are overflowing.  Just lovely.  Though…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 8, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  eggs and milk, milking in the rain, rain

• Hairy MacLairy gets all Kissy Kissy

  Farmy work never ends. Hairy loves children. He likes to Kiss them. When we were walking we stopped to listen to the rustle of the dried winter grasses and investigated tracks in the snow, and peeped into empty nests and ran up and down the pathways through the wild grass. On the way back even…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 7, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  children on the farm, homeschooling, nature, Nature Walks, outdoors, sheep and children

• The Kitchen’s Garden’s 2013 Garden has Begun.

  Is that even a sentence? There must be about four grammatical errors in that title!  However: the broccoli is up. The cabbages, leeks, celery and onions are sown. And  the first wave of tomatoes have been sown too. The gardens have begun. No spring in sight but I can see the beginnings of the spring…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 6, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Building a little house, granny flat, homeschooling, milking cows, pea hens, pregnant sheep, tiny house

• Human Error Kills Bees

  Yesterday afternoon I spent some time researching the bees problem. Trying to work out how my two hives died over this winter. I checked all the links you sent me (thank you) and these links took me to other links, I made notes and collated information and a miserable picture has appeared. After playing colour…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bees, bees dying in the winter weather, dead hives, dealing with failure, failure

• Bad news about the Bees and a Chance to Vote.

  We have snow on the ground. Not much. Almost everyone likes to play in the snow, even if you do not have hands for snow balls. Mama continues to get larger and I can literally see her lambs doing flip flops inside her.  Some of us have no interest in playing in the snow though.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 3, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bad news, bees, pigs in snow, roosters, sheep in snow, thekitchensgarden, vote, writing competition