Kate did this beautiful watercolor for me as a Christmas gift over a year ago. I finally decided to learn how to mat and this is my second attempt - the first was another painting that needed an additional mat to cover up most of the original one, the color of which was rather overpowering by itself. I actually seem to have gotten it more or less ( Read more... )

It's amazing - the birds coming to our feeders in the middle of what the KC Star has called "the Blizzard of Oz." Juncos, cardinals, starlings, finches, wrens, sparrows, brown creepers and downy woodpeckers. This little guy is getting some much-needed energy from one of our suet feeders.

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I'm really loving the birds that are attracted to our front porch feeders. Kate got this nice shot of a downy woodpecker on the suet feeder.

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Got a fairly nice shot of a yellow shafted flicker on the suet feeder this morning:

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It's 4°F and snowing. The goldfinches finally found the finch feeder I put up in the summer and we're enjoying watching them out the window.

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