Tag: sunrise

• Sundogs – like bookends for a frozen day.

  Yesterday was officially freezing.  Real freezing cold. Not that fake cold when your dressing gown is in the dryer and you have to run to the toilet in your nightie and the toilet seat is cold and you shiver and say God that is cold. No, this was real cold. Razer cold that shaves at…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 7, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Barn, celi, chickens, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, sun dogs, sundogs, sunrise, sunset, The kitchen’s garden

• How wonderful ..

  The first day of 2014. I have a good feeling. The sun rose white and cold into the blue sky on the last day of 2013. There was even a little snow. I still love snow.   I hope I don’t jinx it but things have been quietly, quiet and deeply, blissfully uneventful around here…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 1, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  farming in the snow, ice in the trees, sunrise, sunset

• The Last of September – What I learnt from the Challenge.

  For the last meal of the Home Grown September Challenge we had roast lamb slathered in a yogurt, lavender and garlic paste.  Roasted baby pumpkin, roasted beets, roasted shallots tossed in rosemary and hot butter and a huge green salad with an olive oil, cider vinegar and fresh rosemary dressing. All home grown. Today the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 1, 2013

  Farming, Food, homesteading, Photography

  cows and flies, peahen flying, sunrise, the september home grown challenge

• Yesterday was more than just a sunrise

  You would think.  And to trudge back up to the house, through that sunrise, after feeding the animals and moving them,  and checking who is eating well and who is making more noise and telling Daisy: not long, Honey, not long , and then in for a beautiful hot cup of creamy coffee watching the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2013

  Farming, Photography

  change, good morning, hope, house in sunrise, sunrise, The kitchen’s garden

• A gypsy summer day with three new teensy weensy arrivals

  First this most magnificent day in chronological order because that is the way we do things. It was like a sumptious spring day yesterday. All cushiony and warm and loud with birdsong. A scanty bright sunrise over the swimming pool.  Fat sheep!! A growth spurt in the fields and gardens.  The bees were out in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 25, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  chickens, chicks, chooks, sunrise, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, warm day, Yesterdays Temperatures