Tag: countrylife

• VET DAY

  

  The vet comes today to perform two procedures on two calves. Firstly Aunty Del’s Bobette needs her horns removed and another calf needs to be castrated (this was the calf who only had one testicle dropped last time we tried so we had to wait). I have been putting both these procedures off until it…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 7, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  barns, calves, countrylife, cows, farming

• A SEA CHANGE

  

  We have sun.  A sea change.  A striking change. A sun change ” … into something rich and strange.”  A sunny day. Not a warm day particularly. But after such a gray and dark winter – the appearance of sun leaves us gasping with delight. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 26, 2018

  Photography

  countrylife, farming, farmphotography, Illinois, sun, water for pigs, weather

• SNOW GEESE

  

  The snow white geese flew overhead in a huge cloud, kept low by the gray heavy sky.  There were hundreds of them.  Calling like gulls after a fishing boat.  The large group circled around a field of water dropping lower and lower. Spiraling down and dropping, one by one as they laid their bodies in rows…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 25, 2018

  Farming, Photography

  countrylife, farming, flooding, migrating geese., mud, snow geese

• TWO BY TWO

  

  A little sun and out they come. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 13, 2018

  Farm Animals, Photography

  cats, chickens, countrylife, cows, farming, oldbarn, sprouted seed crackers, sun, wintersun

• SUGARING SOON

  

  While we were embracing (somewhat reluctantly) snowfall after snowfall over the last week or so I spent more time than usual in the kitchen.  I get hungry when I am stuck inside. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 11, 2018

  Farm Animals, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cold, countrylife, farming, farmlife, maples, snow, sugaring, survival, tree planting, winter