Tag: The Daily View

• Tick tack

  

  When Mr Flowers has his tail up at full power he does this funny thing. Imagine the tail spread out  as an enormous fan, maybe 150 to 200 feathers ,   now count in ten feathers from the right and imagine the next four feathers on the far right as one panel and  four more on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 1, 2015

  cows, Life, peacocks, Photography

  animal photography, calf, farming, kunekune, peacocks, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• Important Advice

  

  From Sheila : Your Big Fat Pig.  When engaged in a decadent bout of spring sunbathing. One must always wear a hat. On one’s head. And yes, that is the water barrel. And yes she has plenty of places to sleep in the shade. But this was better. I hope you all have a lovely day. Your friend…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 9, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, border collie, farming, hereford pigs, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• Green

  

  The Southerly wind threw itself at us yesterday. Spitting heavy rain in amongst the gales.  Shaking the doors and windows looking to stick its long scissorhands fingers in through the cracks.  The barn was easy prey for windy fingernails. It is a colander of a barn. More holes than you can shake a stick at. More whistles than a marching…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 28, 2014

  Farm Animals, Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Ayrshire cow, Barn, celi, farm photography, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• Sheila hates her diet so much she tried stealing the chook food.

  I am not sure if this is Pania again, too far away to see if she has the gap in her crown or not. But What is she doing up there again?  Probably trying to warm me about what I would find in the chook house. Sheila was in the chook house to steal their…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, chickens, chooks, farming, hereford pig, homesteading, pea hen on barn, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• Your voice echoes when there is snow in the clouds

  Yesterday it snowed again. But it was a gentle sweet silent snow that did not last too long. But the clouds sat heavy. Heavy clouds breathing light snow. Like kind gods. A benevolent uncle kind of snow. I set about trapping and catching the frostbitten chickens who had run off to the barn before the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, cat playing with dog, chickens roosters, cows, dog playing with cat, farming in the deep cold, frostbite on chickens combs, homesteading, old barn, rooster, snow in the country, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden