Posted on December 16, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
43 Comments
Plenty of farmers bake! But yesterday I was tired ( the mill has exploded with orders what with the holiday season AND the new website). So I was feeling a little weary.
Posted on December 8, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Around the farm.
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, celi, countrylife, cows, ducks, farm photography, farming, featured, pigs, The kitchen's garden, weather
Posted on December 1, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
39 Comments
We are getting rain. Lots of rain lately. I wonder if we will have another wet winter.
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, celi, countrylife, cows, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, homesteading, pigs, The kitchen's garden, weather
Posted on November 29, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
47 Comments
Sometimes when I am reading a book I try to make myself slow down by insisting to myself to read every word out loud in my head. I used to encourage my students to do this in exams. Read every word out loud in…
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, celi, countrylife, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, homesteading, pigs, The kitchen's garden, weather
Posted on November 13, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
30 Comments
When I went to bed last night it was 4F (minus 15 celcius) – now, I know for you people up in the mountains to the north this is not too cold but for me here on the plains of Illinois this is bloody…
Posted on October 25, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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This old rooster. He is positively ancient. He is so scrawny that he is able to hide from the big young roosters, keeping out of trouble. Mainly though he just hangs out in the feed shed tucked in behind the bags. In fact he…
Posted on October 21, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
39 Comments
But that was as close as I got before she saw me.
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, celi, countrylife, farm photography, farming, featured, hereford pigs, homesteading, pigs, The kitchen's garden, weather
Posted on October 20, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
39 Comments
I have loaded my pictures but I can’t find my words.
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, celi, countrylife, cows, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, homesteading, pigs, The kitchen's garden, weather
Posted on October 14, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
15 Comments
As I moved from one job to the next mending fences and cleaning out pens, laying in straw and filling water tanks, shifting pigs – a flock of ducks waddled along behind me. Scolding and chattering.
Posted on October 13, 2019
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
23 Comments
With the six. And their field. All the oats and corn are gone already. They ate all the best feed first . Being pigs and all. We have late summer colour succumbing to cold frosty mornings. It was quite cold yesterday – it was…
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, celi, chickens, countrylife, cows, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, homesteading, pigs, The kitchen's garden, weather
