Giveaway Just Because...

... i have 100 followers ! 

SO...

Please leave a comment

 and if you want to be included in the birdie give away ...let me know

in your comment which type of birdie

 is your favorite.

you can pick from

robin, cardinal, owl, bluebird,

 black-capped chickadee, or woodpecker

here is the photo of them all once more

they start our as plain wooden shapes
that I draw onto wood and
Mr. G cuts them all out on his band saw for me.
He's the BEEeeeeeesssssSST !

they end up perched on tiny circular branch cuttings

SOME "THINGS" ABOUT KAT GRIFFIN

favorite crunchy snack - pretzels

favorite  classic movie - "Gone With The Wind"

favorite bird - owls

favorite  wine -  a smooth not too dry, Cabernet Savignon

My mom is in heaven

My dad is a Benedictine Monk

Married to  my high school sweet-heart

we both went to Catholic grade and high school together.

I have four sons (33, 23, 19, and 13) that I love enormously

I'm a night owl

I like flip-flops, soft sand beaches, and any wavy ocean !

I love the sound of : 

sea gulls, wind in the birch trees in fall 

I  Love all types of music

I like to sing at church

(with lots of others singing along)

When I'm alone I often hum a lot.

I always worry about my weight, but I never diet.

I have a large extended family that I love to get together with.

I like change, from time to time

as in moving into a new home.

I was an air-force wife for 20 years.

I got married and had a baby boy over in England at age 19

I learned how to drive a stick- shift

 on the opposite side of the road... in England 

 Then - I  forgot how to drive a stick-shift 

I love holidays, and I like it to snow

...but can't wait for it to warm back up about February.

well that's enough of that...

I will pick  six ( 6 ) mini-bird winners

  Monday October 10 th.

so please leave a comment now and tell me your favorite bird

 from the choices I gave you above...OK ?

- KAT -

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Bird watching from my kitchen window

Baby It's Cold Out There!

So lately I have not been doing a lot of bird painting. I have been bird watching and photographing from my warm little kitchen. I have four differnt kinds of seed and bird feeders in the trees in my back yard. In fact I am starting to get bored with the same trees and the same birds every day. I will enjoy Spring so much because I can get out there and take photos from other vantage [points anyway...and go out into the town and wood and wander around . YYes, this is the classic cabin fever starting to rear its ugly head.

So today I did go into the studios and painted on my landscape oil painting with the brown eyed Susan. I like it so far. but it is so slow painting with oils. Not at all my real style. But what can be done with oils is so cool and different. I don't like the chemicals involved in the process so I don't see my self doing a lot of oil paintings. but I will do more in the future. I'll post a photo of the oil painting next week probably. Hope someone will appreciate it. Wish I knew the trick to getting more followers to my blog...but oh well I shall trudge on no matter what with it. At least most of my family and friends stop by to check it out every once in awhile.

Enjoy these latest photos of some of my back yard visitors.

Woody and his gal (woodpeckers downy)
a big busted robin ( weird bird that one)
blue jay
sparrows
cardinals
titmouse
juncko