Every beaver everywhere wishes you a happy valentine’s day! Me too, even though it means we are ripping through the calendar at a great pace. (I keep telling jon this will be my very first valentine’s day with an American man, so you can imagine how exciting that will be.) i see that Mt Diablo Audubon has my presentation on the calendar which is a little terrifying, but best to warn folks what they’re getting into i suppose.
GLT signs has finished updating the dates on our banners and Tuesday night i go before the parks department and ask permission for the festival. Along with that last night I received Amelia’s initial sketch for the beaver festival. Remember, this year we’ll be using a pirate theme to encourage kids to “seek the lost key to the waters“.
I love “Wetlandia” and “Biodivers City” those were her ideas and very clever. I also love seeing the hidden wildlife among the names and the trail path which will lead to X marks the spot. Say a prayer that this gets finished lovingly by thursday when bay nature needs the artwork for the ad. Amelia assures me it will happen and even though I believe her I’ll be holding my breath.
i have been talking with Michael Pollock and Dan Logan of Marine Fisheries Santa Rosa about the idea of using Amy’s central chalk painting as a way to feature the key relationship between beavers and salmon at the festival. Maybe with a beaver dam and salmon jumping over it, a beaver pond with smolt going to sea, and fry hidden at the bottom. An otter eating a salmon and a great blue heron craning his neck down to catch a fry. With beaver of course, swimming or working on the dam. I asked whether they had any educational artwork in NOAA like that and they both said it was an excellent idea, but shook their heads.
So we’ll be the first. Okay then.
