Tag: photography
Posted on November 23, 2022
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Let’s think before we cook! So we can eliminate food waste in our kitchens. Say to yourself – “Whats next for this meal?” I don’t have trouble because we have pigs and chickens but in other houses the people get to eat all the… Continue Reading “What’s next for this meal?”
Posted on November 23, 2022
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Let’s think before we cook! So we can eliminate food waste in our kitchens. Say to yourself – “Whats next for this meal?” I don’t have trouble because we have pigs and chickens but in other houses the people get to eat all the… Continue Reading “What’s next for this meal?”
Posted on November 13, 2022
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
25 Comments
Oh, the life I lead now! Lots of food! I live in a life of frugal plenty. Which reminded me of a story: When I was a young solo mum with too many children and not enough money; I stole toilet paper. TOILET PAPER!!!… Continue Reading “GREEN SOUP AND RED FIFE BAGUETTES”
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, blogging, chickens, countrylife, cows, farm photography, farming, farmlife, flour, old barns, organic, photography, thekitchensgarden, thekitchensgardendotcom
Posted on September 6, 2022
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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I am back in Visalia, CA. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN!!! It has been getting hotter and hotter and drier and drier. We have had only one short shower since March. So, the water council has asked us to use less water because it is… Continue Reading “113F Here Today”
I started writing this a while ago but the idea would not blossom. So, like one of my favorite authors, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I put the idea in the bottom drawer to ferment a while. It makes sense to me now. I am Three… Continue Reading “I am Three Rivers”
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, Barn, cats, countrylife, cows, ducks, farm photography, farming, featured, photography, rivers, thinking
Well, if you know me at all you will know that I can sometimes spin on a dime and change direction in a second. Living close to me can give a person whiplash. But life is like that, we keep moving and evolving and… Continue Reading “New Turns no Twists, yet.”
Posted on February 5, 2022
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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As you might know by now, a couple of days after I wrote my open Dear Jacinda letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the travel discussion went to chambers. And lo and behold the dates, for New Zealand citizens to be allowed… Continue Reading “On the road again. Soon.”
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
Posted on January 16, 2022
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
48 Comments
Colour spelt with a ‘u’ – colour not color. Many words in American have ‘u’ removed. But English travels and like all languages is endlessly evolving. We can choose our spelling! The chickens laid us an egg yesterday so I made gnocchi. I am… Continue Reading “LETTING COLOUR IN”
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