Tag: farm photography

• A one legged rooster is not really one legged

  The chooks, roosters and the guineas swap feet when they are standing in the cold, one foot up, then that foot down and  then another foot up,  like a wee boy in his thin pajamas showing too much ankle on the cold bathroom floor desperately waiting for the toilet. Hurry UUUUP! His feet taking turns…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, chickens, cows, farm photography, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, sheep, The kitchen’s garden

• As the snow turns to a dogs delight: slush and mud

  The day stayed well above freezing yesterday. The snow began to melt and all the animals  heads came back up. Incredibly the sparrows indulged in a bird bath. Splashing about in the melting ice. Not quite that warm I thought. But there you are,  I am  not that kind of bird. I opened all the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 20, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, cats, dogs, farm photography, no waste, peacock, pigs, The Duke of Kupa

• Writing and farming below freezing

  Yesterday was colder than ever and the wind was blowing fiercely scoring the skin off my face and the water out of my own eyes. So cold that if you are doing the dishes and your hands are a little wet, and you pop outside for a piece of wood for the stove and then…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, celi, cow, farm photography, farming, homesteading, writing, Yesterdays Temperatures

• the mantle of fog settles on the farmy

  “Fog is made up of condensed water droplets which are the result of the air being cooled to the point (actually, the dewpoint) where it can no longer hold all of the water vapor it contains.”  Well, that is the scientific reason. The real reason is that we all need to rest our minds and have a wee…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 4, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  cow, farm photography, farming, fog, fog on the farm, how to make hot chocolate, The kitchen’s garden

• Have you ever made funny faces for a baby…

  But the baby does not care… Poor BooBoo. No more laughing, it hurts to laugh. But every time I look at that shot this morning I laugh out loud. Then look what Baby Marmalade did next … Went to sleep in my sewing basket.. Poor BooBoo… Poor Sewing. And as if our grey day yesterday…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 3, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, dog and kitten, farm photography, homesteading, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden