Tag: peacock
All winter long Nelson the rabbit lives in her glasshouse sneaking up and down the steps, in and out of bedrooms, eating clothing, sleeping in washing baskets and nibbling on any paper left lying about at all! I know a bunny in the glasshouse… Continue Reading “The Best summer home for your Rabbit”
Posted on January 22, 2022
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Some pictures today. I need to get into the kitchen shortly and make the gnocchi recipe one last time. It is all about the method really. Then I will write it up and publish it on janiesmill.com – we are promoting Sifted Durum this… Continue Reading “Mid Winter and More Gnocchi”
Category: PhotographyTags: countrylife, cows, farm photography, farming, featured, food, gnocchi, old barn, peacock, photography, pigs, The kitchen's garden, thepaddedroomies, weather
I am still in my black and white period. Though I do feel a brightening. I think subject matter has a lot to do with the success of monochrome images. With colour it is a much simpler equation. With black and white it is… Continue Reading “Black and White”
Category: PhotographyTags: black and white, celi, cold, countrylife, farming, featured, images, midwest, mourning, peacock, photography, The kitchen's garden
Although the flood waters have receded the ground is so wet that every morning the dew is heavy and the sun rises into misty wet air. The humidity is saturating. We have not had a full hot drying sunny day in weeks. The clouds… Continue Reading “The Damp”
Category: PhotographyTags: chickens, countrylife, farm photography, farming, featured, gardens, midwest, peacock, The kitchen's garden, thekitchensgarden, thekitchensgardendotcom
It is Saturday morning – after another fraught week. A huge hawk came onto the farm while I was at work on Tuesday and killed Mrs Flowers. I saw the hawk when I was driving up the drive from work. The birds were frantic,… Continue Reading “Living with Nature”
I am popping in to test things out today and share a few photographs with you. I had a wee problem with a few trollers on the blog. They made everything sour. So I went quiet for a while hoping they would get bored.… Continue Reading “It’s Been So Long”
Of both my worlds. A little of both my worlds. Don’t we all live with our feet in more than one camp – that is life right?
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, celi, chickens, countrylife, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, homesteading, peacock, The kitchen's garden, thekitchensgardendotcom, weather
Yesterday cleared into a beautiful calm sunny day. And we got everything done from that days list. The asparagus is all mulched, the duck house has two new windows covered in strong screen, I collected all the feeds and we stowed them in the… Continue Reading “NERVE”
Category: PhotographyTags: Barn, countrylife, farming, farmlife, featured, hereford pigs, peacock, piglets, pigs, The kitchen's garden, weather
Posted on February 1, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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The relief of warm air is palpable. I can touch, maybe even palpate, this relief. This morning is 7f ( -13C) as I awake. Above Fahrenheit’s less that scientific Zero. But measurement is all an invention to some degree or other. After we run… Continue Reading “COMING UP FOR AIR”
Posted on January 30, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Last night as the wind blew hard and the temperatures dropped so fast my face ached, I got all the chores finished. Finally got in the house. Finally peeled off the layers of messed up miserable ramshackle outdoor homeless person clothing. Finally got my… Continue Reading “LAST NIGHT”