Hello my darlin dears, meadow creatures of the old elm and the precious Gnomes who helped me bake some cookies for the pigs and feed some alfalfa to the cows:)
Miss Lamb your tree climbing and greenhouse loving farmer here,
As mentioned in my last post, I had my friend Amy came out to the farm and we had a lovely day:)
When any two girls get together to have a fun time, of course they pose for the camera:)
Witness my shutter bug ways:)
Here is a classic pose/capture:)
Here is a goofy Kissee face capture:)
Here is a wind blown capture (Hey..we are in Oklahoma...wind is as common as love)
....& Amy took some captures of me while I was not aware..I thought she was just looking at the screen that anwry girl:)
Note the three gold dots above my head...those are honey jars but of course:) wait till you see the finished product:) I had to bring the truck so I could reach a certain lovely branch:)
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She also helped me take some captures of the fruit that sprouted from my hair...I thought It needed to be captured:)
Title:"Hiding Deer From The Hunt"
Hiding Deer From The Hunt Part I
Hiding Deer From The Hunt Part II
They are not available online just yet...they are actually special for something I shall announce on Monday of next week:) You are going to love it!!:)
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Be on the look out for lots more art:) I am so excited to show you what I have been working so hard on:)
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....& as a side note, their are two very special people in my life that deserve lots of love today:)
Congrats to the Amazing and talented Ryan O'Neal from Sleeping at last for completing the yearbook project:) I am simply over the moon and back to the morn for you my dear friend:) The whole project has been very inspiring for myself and many more light loving listners out there:) you did it brother!! I am glad I know you and I am glad we both love nature:)
..& a big congrats to my lovely friend Lindsay Zodrow of Collected thread.... it is their 3 year anniversary and they are doing such a great job:) Lins.....I am very proud of you....you my dear are one of the hardest workers I know:) You are very creative and always inspire me to try something new:) I love you darlin dear and am glad you are in my crazy life:)
...Go kiss someone people...show em you love em....
Truly Yours,
The Beginning, the garden & looking forward to holding your hand,
Hello My Darlin Dears, frolicing meadow creatures whom brought me a gaggle of apples and the sweet Gnomes who knitted all of the pigs matching sweaters in anticipation of fall,
Miss Lamb your truck drivin and pond swimming farmer here,
I had the pleasure of having the amazing Amy McCord out to the farm yesterday...she has been of great help here at Early Bird Acres...like any good friend, she has many a time dropped everything and used her precious gas money to come out to the farm and spend some lovely time with me:)
We cooked, we picked weeds, she helped me with some art, she ate (& I think really liked) my dutch apple pie, we drank red wine, we took an amazing day nap and we took the truck out for a spin...below, is a video:)
Yes...I get a bit animated...& do not mind my thick southern accent...it is because I am in my truck:)
I shall share more captures of my adventure with amy, but for now, let me share with you a lovely interview I did for OKC.net :)
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First of all, when I clicked over to the story...I laughed at how large my head was:) Just click here and you will get it:)
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Story By Grace Gordon:
If you’ve ever been greeted with a “Hello, my Darling Dear!” you’re probably talking to Miss Samantha Joelle Honey Lamb – photographer extraordinaire, and proprietress of the straight-out-of-a-fairytale farm Early Bird Acres. In an era where people, more often than not, tend to operate from a standpoint of jaded cynicism, Samantha Lamb offers a refreshing counterpoint. She’s as open and warm as they come, and her sweetness is as pure as the honey she produces on her farm.
1. Tell us how Early Bird Acres got started.
My lovely family says I was never born, just grown like a wheat field and they were lucky enough to harvest me. I always knew I wanted to live an Agrarian life. This all came to fruition when I happened to have enough money and a crazy enough mindset to start a homestead by myself. I already found myself going out to Hobart, America every weekend in order to create my art in it’s pastoral scenes, so it seemed like the perfect place. It was not as hard to start a farm as I thought it would be. It was ten times as difficult. Animals are born and they pass away. Gardens thrive and sometimes they are attacked by squash bugs.
My steadfast is the morning. I wake up at 4:30 nearly every morn to milk and start in on chores. I rejoice in the life and art that shall be created and kept for that single day. Sending love to the growing fields is also a daily task, but you never know what the season shall bring. I just feel honored to be perpetually inspired and to live the life I do.
2. Your favorite on-the-farm story:
There are way to many to say really. I try to share a different one every time. How about this one…
I was fortunate enough to have the band Umbrellas out to the farm for a week and the whole of the Black Watch studio guys. Also my good friend Daniel Foulks. I spent the whole of the week cooking for the guys and listening to lovely music coming from the barn. There was funny moment after funny moment. I can vividly remember Jarod Evans of Blackwatch running through one of the fields and chasing after my cow Blue with his microphone trying to get some natural sounds. Recalling the way the boys acted when I asked them to each hold a chicken for a capture still can make me roll. For a lovely evening we had the amazing Charlie Hall & Sethy McCarroll joining us for a day and having a cookout. We had a very tiny round grill and managed to fit over 5 large steaks on it’s top, and I must say, they were some of the best I have ever had. I also enjoyed watching the wonderful Nathan Price do a bit of painting while taking in the grandeur of the wheat fields.
The census woman happened to stop by while the band was visiting the homestead and it took her a while to be convinced that, yes, I was the only resident and no this is not a commune.
3. Tell us about your creative process as a photographer and artist.
Goodness gracious… my process. Honestly, I just take my fanciful daydreams and make them come to reality. If I wish to have a picnic in the middle of a wheat field, I am going to make that happen, and take a capture of it. I use only natural light and almost always a low DOF (the low depth of field is what can make one part of the image in focus, and the rest all blurry and dreamy). I am also constantly doing things to inspire myself, even if slightly crazy. In fact, yesterday I was feeling a bit low so I decided to go for a swim with the frogs in the pond, while leaving my dress on shore. Ohhhh my goodness…the pond is really nothing but red mud right now, so really it was more of a spa mud treatment, and all for free. All in all, this inspired me to take a picture in the next few weeks of myself wrapped in pumpkin vines, as if I had become part of the pumpkin patch on the west side of my cottage. So my advice to you is to go run in the rain. Roll through the fields and love the life you were given. Life is too short not to go swimming with the frogs. Go bake a pie you crazy darlin dear!!
4. Top five favorite local bands?
That is a heady question….oohhh yikes… #1. Samantha Crain #2.Broncho #3.My Garden In the Morning #4.Mark Philips & The Third Generation #5.Sherree Chamberlain
5. Top five favorite films?
#1.Sweetland #2.Legends Of The Fall #3.Cold Mountain #4.Cinderella (the old Disney version) #5.Snow White (..Again…The old Disney version)
[Editor's Note: The scene where all of the woodland creatures gather to Snow White and help her with her chores as she sings is said to be based on the real life experiences of Samantha Lamb.]
6. Top five favorite artists/photographers?
Well… I have a lot of artists I adore. Many of them are my good friends here in Oklahoma. So to be fair, I only want to mention one gent and he lives in the great state of Kentucky. His name is Wendell Berry and it is my dream to one day bake a pie with him and his wife. Go check out his books.
I am really enjoying the New Botanical gardens. I went on a picnic there a weekend or so ago and I must say, lovely job OKC. I am sure I was not supposed to, but I kicked off my boots and waded in the new cobblestone river. I pretended that I was in Montana Salmon Fishing.
9. Favorite local restaurant?
Ludavine!!! If you have not gone there, then go. They support local farmers and make amazing food. Jonathon Stranger, you are the best☺
10. What projects are you working on right now?
I am working on a new project called “The Bucolic Series”. It is my way of combating our drought state of mind and creating lovely thriving scenes of green, grace and growth. Lots of agrarian images, fruit & Veggies. Also, lots of honey.
On the farm, I am working tilling up the ground around the main house and the guest cottage for more gardens & also working with my old man friend Rodger with his beehives. We hope to have a lovely spring, and between him and myself, have a lovely world of Jersey Milk and Wichita Honey.
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Thank you lovely Grace for the kind intro and for giving me the chance to be the "Person Of Interest" on your site for this lovely week:)
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...& here is one last capture that Amy took with her camera yesterday...just giving Fred some love:)
....ok..one more....I took it with my cell phone...I believe I found the locness monster...& I know his name:)
Cheap Champagne, Feeling more like a butterfly than usual & the joy of having you in my life (We should go for another picnic by the way dear....this weather is to good...lets bring Wolf, Pig & Barnacle ),
Helllooooo my Darlin Dears, meadow creatures whom burrow in the hay & the kind gnomes whom alerted me today that their are 5 new baby chicks who were hatched in the barn that very night,
Miss Lamb your squash picking and cuccumber picking farmer here,
Goodness gracious my loves...I sure am feeling the warmness of various hearts:)
The very talented and handsome Nathan Poppee created this lovely video for the Dust Bowl Arts Market and I was honored to be in it:) You folks should watch it:) it features many amazing Oklahoma artists and the adorable Ell, whom did a fantastic job at babysitting bernard my bunny:)
Can I just say how much I appreciate the Dust Bowl crew? You folks did a fantastic job:) & Black Watch, I had a lovely time watching the music.... in fact, my booth was perfectly facing the stage:) It was dreamy:)
I send my love and kiss each of your foreheads:)
The Pie I am Baking, The Pasta I am making & the basket that will great you sweet basil when I see your face,
