Tag: winds

• HIGH WINDS

  

  The first thing I do every day – even before I sit down to write to you, my friends – is I check the weather.  As kids, when the radio man read the weather forecast woe betide anyone who spoke or rattled pots or slammed the door. There was a hushed almost religious silence for the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2018

  Photography

  cats, country, sky, sunset, weather, winds

• The girls decide

  

  Have to run – we are leaving for the Bantam Swap early so here are yesterdays pics. What is wrong with those pictures?  Naughty opportunistic pigs taking advantage of high winds and broken gates. And combine without fuss. And as they will be ten months in three weeks and are quite big enough, according to my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 3, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  chicks, farming, hogs, pigs, winds

• Easterly

  

  It seems that the wind is directing my days at the moment. The other day it was the Northerly and now it has swung to the East and settled there with all the gloom and damp that always seems to accompany an Easterly.  It is not a big wind or anything just a grey wet…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 1, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  barn doors, Dexter, Easterly, heifers, winds

• Rocking the Barn

  Not as in rock ‘n roll either. Just a’rockin’. The frozen winds were so strong yesterday that the barn was heaving in and out, like a giant loudly asthmatic bellows. Often I anchor the camera by leaning it on the barn wall or a post but that was hopeless yesterday as the whole barn was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 25, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, farming, farming in the cold, old barn, snow, winds