Tag: animal photography
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Are our phones staging an insidious silent coup?
I am working on uncoupling from my phone. Not the whole phone but when did these features start replacing stuff in my life. The convenience of it is so seductive. is this a take-over of the chosen kind. In that I have chosen it? The flashlight, the camera, the notes, the photo file, the calendar,…
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Friends with Coffee
At least once a year my friends from Georgia come up to Chicago to see their family and stop off for a day on the farm. K always brings preserves and coffee. She likes good coffee! They have done this every year for eight years so they know their way around the kitchen and the…
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I Hate to Say It
(Because you know how I dread the winters out here): I hate to say it but we now must release the F word out into the Farmy vernacular. FALL is beginning to be felt. Though I prefer the word Autumn which is what we say in New Zealand. As in Autumnal. I love that word.…
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The Scent of Walnuts
Since my wicked bout with Covid in New Zealand I have had either no sense of smell or ALL the smells! My sense of smell comes in waves. And the other day after delivering another batch of found walnuts R – she is the BEST forager – R said her car smelt like walnuts. And…
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That Dawn Again!
I was up before the dawn today. Letting the dogs out and opening the door for the white chickens to get onto the grass and making my cup of tea before I scuttled back to my bed still warm from a nights restful sleep and jumped in so that I could write to you. It…
The Kitchen's Garden 