Tag: cow

• The Good News and The Bad News

  First the BAD NEWS.  While fooling about with my newly extended lens yesterday I managed to scratch the lens.  I just cannot believe I did that. A strong line was curved across every image I took yesterday.  I cannot clean the mark away.  Senior Son has put his thinking cap on but from now until…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 13, 2011

  Bees, Farm Animals, Life, Photography

  Ayrshire, bee image, butter mold, camera, cow, lens

• Sustainable/Self-sufficient/Subsistence? Labels.

  Sustainable sounds so similar to subsistence. (Please excuse the alliteration) Subsistence is hand to mouth, then the hand is empty. Sustainable involves the land and using your hands to feed your mouth while enriching the land to grow some more. Sustainable growing is by nature more upwardly mobile. Subsistence is hard to get above.  Both…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 10, 2011

  Farm Animals, Living the life

  certified organic, cow, labels, old fashioned, self sufficient, sheep, subsistance, sustainable

• Rude Railway Men and Roasted Chickens in the Heat

  In the blog world there are no days.  Time has lost meaning as I write. People read my words and navigate their way around my site while I sleep. When the flag counter says yesterday the date is today.  I file as people are rising from their beds and I rest in yesterdays night planning…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 29, 2011

  Farm Animals, Living the life, Photography

  chickens, cow, guinea fowl, sheep, trains. corn stalks