Tag: wine

• The perfect O

  

  Of surprise when visitors arrive, complete with bottles of wine, at dinner time when there is plenty to eat. So everything except food and conversation (and of course the bottles of wine) is gently put aside until the morning.  Today the sun is shining, we are warming up a little and the calves are galloping about the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 3, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  kunekune, pigs, wine

• Making apple cider with just a hint of cuteness: due to popular demand.

  Yesterday we made the apple cider. This year has been an astronomical year for apples. I have been collecting apples from a number of different trees over the last few weeks. We love to have a mixture of apple flavours in the cider. I went to a tree down the road near a wee farmhouse…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 14, 2013

  Farm Animals, homesteading, Life, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, apple cider, apple crusher, honey mead, kittens and dog, old barn, wine

• Pickled Eggs and Food Photography

  My first attempt at a real composition. This is not as simple as it looks. I can see everything that is wrong with each of these images and whats more  I can see what to do to make the image better.  And some areas are not too bad. I am taking notes! I am looking…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 26, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  food photography, grapes, old barn, pickled eggs, wine

• The Man at the Gate

  The man was well dressed and nervous. He was standing on my lawn blocked by barking dogs as I stepped out onto the verandah. “Alright if I give treats to your dogs?” He called out with his back to the shiny late model city slick car. ‘Down’  I signalled and both dogs dropped like stones…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 8, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Stories, Vines and Wine

  excalibur dehydrator, farming for health, health insurance, muddy pigs, The kitchen’s garden, tomato basil jam, wine, writing

• Getting Re-Antiquated

  I know that  heading (above) makes no sense but I have a challenge that once I have written my title  I must keep it. Sometimes the weirdest phrases and re-spellings get  stuck in  my head.  I am very grateful that you are all the kind of kind people who bear with the slight eccentricities that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 28, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  compost, farming, hay, hereford pigs, house cow, milking, mucking out, peacock nests, peacocks, straw, sustainable farming, wine