Posted on January 30, 2019 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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…
Category: PhotographyTags: animal photography, Barn, bittercold, farm photography, farming, featured, peacock, snow, weather, wind
Posted on December 5, 2017 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
The wind is howling outside. It howled all yesterday too by the afternoon it was gale force and is holding.
Category: Photography, Sustainable farmingTags: cold, cornhusks, cows, farming, farmphotography, featured, thekitchensgardendotcom, weather, wind
Posted on March 8, 2017 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
I was feeling lazy yesterday afternoon as I climbed right to the top of the hay pile in the West Barn, the last stack stands in the corner of the central storage area of the barn. It is stacked against an interior wall with cows behind…
Posted on December 8, 2016 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
Wind and Cold. It was windy all night and as I write on my disappearing keyboard (the letters are almost all gone again) the wind is howling outside and it is 20F/-6C. This does not include windchill. The windchill equation brings us down to…
Category: Farming, Life, PhotographyTags: calves, cold, farming, pigs, thekitchensgarden, wind, winter, working outside
Posted on March 17, 2016 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
The wind yesterday was wild. Hair raising actually. We have a few branches down nothing too dramatic but the clouds were incredible. They were moving very fast going from this – to this. Within a few hours. This cloud was the pre-curser to a…
Category: Farming, Life, PhotographyTags: animal photography, Barn, celi, hereford pigs, old barn, pigs, spring, wind
Posted on May 18, 2015 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
Yesterday John and I brought the two steers Daisy’s Bobby and Queenie’s Bobby back from the West barn so they could munch in the Daisy Mistress paddock. It is deep and lush and perfect for fattening these two. The boys are back! The stock…
Category: Farm Animals, Farming, PhotographyTags: cat sleeping in basket, cows, grass fed, grass fed beef, kunekune pig, oatmeal cookies, steers, wind
Posted on April 22, 2015 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
The day started off so nicely. It was not warm but the calm was nice. The animals woke up slowly. But soon after breakfast Mistress Wind arrived – her black cape flapping – unpacked her bag of demon daughters and they let loose with a…
Category: homesteading, Life, PhotographyTags: kune kune pig, letters for my Baby Girl, midwest, mistress, prairies, rooster eating with cats, wind
Posted on April 11, 2015 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
I can’t show you what the wind looks like. There are no leaves or long grasses bending in supplication to the wind to help me show you. I cannot take one picture that lets you feel the full force of a roaring westerly wind,…
Category: Farming, homesteading, Life, PhotographyTags: Dutch belted calf, prairies, wind, Wind on the prairies
Posted on April 28, 2014 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
This is why I milk a cow. Ricotta cheese, Butter, Parmesan cheese, Farmers cheese. Icecream, Cream, milk for my morning coffee straight from the milking – perfectly homogenised, Yoghurt, Sour cream, Cream sauces. Um, what else? Actually I am not going to talk about the milk….
Category: Farming, homesteading, Life, PhotographyTags: calves playing, chickens, farming, house cow, kunekune piglet, lamb, milking, wind
Posted on March 20, 2013 by Cecilia Mary Gunther
This is what we had yesterday. A dreadful siberian cold with sun and a wicked wind. Ironic considering that yesterday I said to you that I would take wind and sun over calm and cloud. So it blew a freezing gale! I still appreciated…
Category: Farming, homesteading, Life, PhotographyTags: bottle fed lambs, chickens, freezing sun, old barn, peacock, roosters, wind