Tag: country life

• COWS LIKE FOSSILS

  

  After John and I had attended to some business in a nearby town we headed home to scoop the poop.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 12, 2018

  Farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  barncleaning, country life, cows, farming, manure, shoveling, trees

• A-WALL-KY

  

  The sky spent the day in the same heavy dirty white of the earth. The horizon defined by barely melting snow soil.  It was eerie with stillness. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2018

  farmphotography, Photography, winter

  boggs, boots, country life, farming, featured, midwest, snow, walk, weather, wild garden, winter

• ALEX AND HER DAUGHTER

  

  ALEX and her daughter go to their new home on the 10th of this month.  December already! In fact December 2nd. I am away on my travels in 15 sleeps. FIFTEEN!

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 2, 2017

  Farming, farmphotography, Photography

  calf, country, country life, cows, december, dextercows, Dexters, farming, farmlife, featured, piglet, weather

• ONE FAT PIG

  

  That’s all I’ve got.  One little fat pig who looks like a topographical map of the world and his rooster. And often I have a plethora of images, though plethora – with its bloody connotations – might not be the perfect word. Surfeit – no that is not right either as we never have enough…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 15, 2017

  Farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  country, country life, farming, farmlife, featured, good, life, potbelly, rescuepig

• FEELING BLOODY

  

  When my mother was ‘feeling bloody’ she meant feeling bloody determined. Written earlier in the morning: “Well, my usual driver is unable to drive the trailer for me today so I am going to have to Man Up and hook up the stock trailer and deliver my hog myself.  I am trying to feel bloody…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 9, 2017

  farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  country life, farming, farmlife