Tag: midwest

• Storm Season

  

  During the day, yesterday, the wind was all bluster. Big fat round bluster. My hair looked wind -blown -fantastic.  The storms came in later, at dusk and without any warning switched feet and kicked from the opposite direction, wooshing the tarp off the chicken tractor, slamming propped doors, scattering sheep. Of course the Tank hens were fine,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 29, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  burrows, celi, cows and calves on fields, eat grass, midwest, minks, storms, the kitchens garden farmy

• Rain, Hail, The Works!

  The black clouds I noticed when I started to carry buckets of water to the barn in preparation for the milking yesterday morning, were not as frightening as the  continual thunder. It sounded like a monster train running over a bump in the  track not too far away. The thunder rolled again and again for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 1, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  camera, drought, midwest, Nikon D70, rain on hay

• Hiding Out from the Blizzard in The Barn

  It is 14F (–10C) this morning. Snow on the ground. Yesterday we were locked inside  with a blizzard hurling itself around outside. It was about 18F all day.  Snow flew in swirls through the fields past the buildings and straight out across the plains.  It seemed very certain of its path that  snow.  We were…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire heifer, Barn, cows, hereford calf, interiors, midwest, snow