I was thinking yesterday about the keystone concept. And noticing it’s not really big enough to describe everything that beavers do, Sure they connect the the two halves of the archway and let it stand and support the weight of whatever follows, but they also build the reason for the archway to be there in the first place and make possible the other blocks that will come later.
They’re actually way more important than a simple keystone.
Which lead me to spend yesterday putting together some additions to Ms. Arnold’s lovely artwork. It involved thinking of what was needed and shopping the internet for like-colored images that matched her overall theme. Okay, crime. It involved crime I admit. But it’s for a good cause, I’m not making any money from it and it was worth it. My hope is to inspire some talented artists to do it right.
What do you think? It has already been shared a dozen times on Facebook and our beaver-loving brits are already hard at work to paint their own with comparable english species which is an auspicious start, I feel It gets the point across nicely! (h/t to Robin and Shauna who’s suggested helped make it better!)
