Tag: ice

• The Gift of a Day to Prepare for a Storm.

  Yesterday was almost warm. I know it doesn’t look terribly warm, and blowing so the snow was washed up into beachy tidal drifts but warm enough so I could spend hours outside preparing the barn and my animals for the deep cold that is forecast. Though I will believe the weather when I see it.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, dogs in snow, farming in freezing temperatures, how to keep a pig warm, ice, pigs in snow, snow

• Do you want to peek in through my windows?

  Well, you can’t, because the glass is covered in ice. This is what I see when I look back out at you.  Best you use the door.  But be prepared to give it a good shove as some of the doors were frozen shut yesterday morning.  Who needs curtains!  This is a curly barked maple.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 14, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  freezing rain, house cow, ice, Once a day milking cow, peeking, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, writing competitions

• With no respect for cold.

  My CameraMasquerades    As a reluctant poet With no respect for cold. I am a little late this morning because I thought we could watch the sunrise together. So I fed the animals early and had the camera out for sunrise.  In the end I could not even feel my finger press the button to release…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 28, 2012

  Photography, Writing

  ice, sunrise, tree