Category: Photography

• Everything but the Earwigs – Making Wine on the Farmy.

  Oh and we tried to take out the spiders too. No spiders were harmed in this post -or photographed – so it is safe to proceed. Yesterday was cold all day. One of those cold days that has a proper serious chill carried by a mean little wind aimed at that one spot of bare…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 8, 2012

  Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  chickens, daily view, grape crushing, grape pressing, photography, pigs, The kitchen’s garden, wine making

• Dutch Apple Pie

  I am not a food blog but I love food. The old Codger loves food too especially dessert pies. So every week he looks through his old recipe books, and he has a fair few of them, and chooses a pie.  This Dutch Apple pie is made just like an apple pie except you top…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 5, 2012

  Humour, Photography, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  chickens, Dutch Apple Pie, Pigs in the chook house, The Daily View, the hen house, The kitchen’s garden, The temperature

• Butt-heads Butt Heads

  This morning shot is for yummy chunklet who loves to see the sky and does not see much of it, marooned up there in the big city! The sun was still so low it was obscured by the Rat House.  And a rose by any other name.. is a rose whose name I cannot remember but…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 3, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  head butts, water barrels, white rose, writers desk, writing competition

• It’s OK I won’t count the days!

  The Duke of Kupa is still beautiful… … even though his tail is all but gone for the winter. The girls are all hanging out together in the Potato Paddock. A little flock. And look who has been let out of the hospital wing and rejoined the nursery… Bobby Blanc is all better. Much to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 2, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire calf, border collie, daily shot, Duke of Kupa, little flock of sheep, peacock, temperature in Illinois, The kitchen’s garden

• And the Winning View IS…

  I was on tenterhooks all yesterday watching the voting from my little White House.  I do actually have a collection of rooms called the West Wing too!!  I was watching the polling and working in the changing light and thinking about a whole years worth of seasonal changes in the slowest of increments as we…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 1, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cow, daily photograph, grader, ladder to treehouse, photography, pig shadows, shadow photography, treehouse