Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️
@stuthefarmer.bsky.social
Farmer on the dusty prairie; a dad; a bagpiper; a school teacher; a yeoman; a Luddite; a Ukrainian-Catholic Celt. Possibly a Viking.
Trying to live in a good way.
Treaty 6 and 7.
Trying to live in a good way.
Treaty 6 and 7.
This cactus is doing its best to keep spirits up around here.
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This cactus is doing its best to keep spirits up around here.
November 5: let us remember this day Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter parliament with honest intentions.
(This is usually where some Englishman jumps in and scolds me for celebrating a terrorist Catholic.
But are we sure that disappearing the ruling class in an instant is such a bad idea?)
(This is usually where some Englishman jumps in and scolds me for celebrating a terrorist Catholic.
But are we sure that disappearing the ruling class in an instant is such a bad idea?)
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
November 5: let us remember this day Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter parliament with honest intentions.
(This is usually where some Englishman jumps in and scolds me for celebrating a terrorist Catholic.
But are we sure that disappearing the ruling class in an instant is such a bad idea?)
(This is usually where some Englishman jumps in and scolds me for celebrating a terrorist Catholic.
But are we sure that disappearing the ruling class in an instant is such a bad idea?)
La ofrenda. Saturnino Herrán. 1913.
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
La ofrenda. Saturnino Herrán. 1913.
A very quick trip to the city yesterday gave me a chance to pick up some maté.
I haven’t had any in a long time. But in another life, I could have been very happy as a gaucho.
I don’t own a proper gourd right now, but I still have a bombilla and my Navajo sheep mug is about the right size.
I haven’t had any in a long time. But in another life, I could have been very happy as a gaucho.
I don’t own a proper gourd right now, but I still have a bombilla and my Navajo sheep mug is about the right size.
October 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A very quick trip to the city yesterday gave me a chance to pick up some maté.
I haven’t had any in a long time. But in another life, I could have been very happy as a gaucho.
I don’t own a proper gourd right now, but I still have a bombilla and my Navajo sheep mug is about the right size.
I haven’t had any in a long time. But in another life, I could have been very happy as a gaucho.
I don’t own a proper gourd right now, but I still have a bombilla and my Navajo sheep mug is about the right size.
Signs of life and death on the fenceline.
October 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Signs of life and death on the fenceline.
Christopher Columbus actually appears in my family tree.
Not as a direct ancestor (*sigh of relief*) but he was married to my direct ancestor’s sister.
So as Columbus’ great-great-great-etc grand nephew (through marriage) I’d like to take this opportunity to say you shouldn’t celebrate the guy.
Not as a direct ancestor (*sigh of relief*) but he was married to my direct ancestor’s sister.
So as Columbus’ great-great-great-etc grand nephew (through marriage) I’d like to take this opportunity to say you shouldn’t celebrate the guy.
October 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Christopher Columbus actually appears in my family tree.
Not as a direct ancestor (*sigh of relief*) but he was married to my direct ancestor’s sister.
So as Columbus’ great-great-great-etc grand nephew (through marriage) I’d like to take this opportunity to say you shouldn’t celebrate the guy.
Not as a direct ancestor (*sigh of relief*) but he was married to my direct ancestor’s sister.
So as Columbus’ great-great-great-etc grand nephew (through marriage) I’d like to take this opportunity to say you shouldn’t celebrate the guy.
Los Embozados.
1955. José Chavéz Morado
1955. José Chavéz Morado
October 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Los Embozados.
1955. José Chavéz Morado
1955. José Chavéz Morado
This corn was planted to make silage and it’s going to be chopped in just a couple of days.
But it’s very nearly a grain crop.
I’m starting to believe that, within a decade, we’ll be harvesting corn grain at Endiang, Alberta.
But it’s very nearly a grain crop.
I’m starting to believe that, within a decade, we’ll be harvesting corn grain at Endiang, Alberta.
September 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This corn was planted to make silage and it’s going to be chopped in just a couple of days.
But it’s very nearly a grain crop.
I’m starting to believe that, within a decade, we’ll be harvesting corn grain at Endiang, Alberta.
But it’s very nearly a grain crop.
I’m starting to believe that, within a decade, we’ll be harvesting corn grain at Endiang, Alberta.
El zorro en la oscuridad.
September 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
El zorro en la oscuridad.
Harvest continues.
September 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Harvest continues.
Watchful icon of an ancient ancestor.
Saint Volodymyr the Great, Prince of Kyiv.
Saint Volodymyr the Great, Prince of Kyiv.
September 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Watchful icon of an ancient ancestor.
Saint Volodymyr the Great, Prince of Kyiv.
Saint Volodymyr the Great, Prince of Kyiv.
I’m actually a big fan of the altar-server’s-vestments-and-converse-shoes combo.
September 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I’m actually a big fan of the altar-server’s-vestments-and-converse-shoes combo.
And then it was harvest time.
Brought to you by the best harvest equipment money could buy in 1984.
Brought to you by the best harvest equipment money could buy in 1984.
September 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
And then it was harvest time.
Brought to you by the best harvest equipment money could buy in 1984.
Brought to you by the best harvest equipment money could buy in 1984.
The energy I hope to bring to the world.
September 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The energy I hope to bring to the world.
Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone & get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake @ have a stomach-ache & be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, & have a bad conscience… How terrible.”
-Moominpappa
-Moominpappa
September 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone & get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake @ have a stomach-ache & be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, & have a bad conscience… How terrible.”
-Moominpappa
-Moominpappa
A few cobs from our cornfield yesterday.
September 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A few cobs from our cornfield yesterday.
Look close and you’ll see the moose tracks through the corn.
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Look close and you’ll see the moose tracks through the corn.
September 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Floating on the barley.
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Floating on the barley.
The end of the day in the barley field.
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The end of the day in the barley field.
So this is their Reichstag Fire, then…
September 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
So this is their Reichstag Fire, then…
Seriously- Alberta is hitting every one of Umberto Eco’s 14 Common Traits of Fascism.
September 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Seriously- Alberta is hitting every one of Umberto Eco’s 14 Common Traits of Fascism.
I think corn is awfully pretty.
September 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I think corn is awfully pretty.
This horse has zero chill.
September 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This horse has zero chill.
To change the world, my friend Sancho, that is not madness, or utopia, but justice.
-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
September 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
To change the world, my friend Sancho, that is not madness, or utopia, but justice.
-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes