Category: Writing

• Sometimes we all need to have a good think.

  Yesterday I awoke to 22F, this morning it is 40F.  But summer  is over. That life’s force we call Mother Nature is more powerful that any goverment, any warlike clan.  Any law, any silly little wish. Any roof and any plan. When they say the Force of Nature they mean the ultimate force.  She is the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 9, 2012

  Bees, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine, Writing

  jersey cows, life, mother nature, planning, preparing for winter, sustainable farming, taking stock

• You can’t make wine out of that! They say.

  I know it looks bad.                                                                                                    …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 6, 2012

  Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine, Writing

  cats, Cooking with the old folks, grapes, ice wine

• 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

• The boy, the Tree and the Fence

  Summer feet smell different. Sturdier, rugged,  a shiny honest dirt smell.  At the start of summer we inch and pick our way in  bare feet across the stones to the sand. By the late summer we stream barefoot across the carpark, through the beach weeds, over the gravel and through the hot sand to the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 16, 2012

  Stories, Writing

  short story, writing

• Hush.. tread softly.. lest you tread on my words

  Miss C is writing so keep it down! Yes, that means you!Be careful where you put your feet. My words are all over the place. I am gathering them up into something coherent today.   This story was not that funny at the time but in retrospect, which is our only real perspective in life…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 15, 2012

  Humour, Photography, Writing

  farm animals, writing