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Christine McLauglin is the garden columnist for the Examiner and a Master Gardener herself. She recently worked on a beaver column for Suite101 which I think I told you linked to us as a further source of information. Well now she’s also the wildlife columnist for the Examiner so she wrote this about the creek seekers contest yesterday:

The San Francisco Estuary Project and River of Words presents, “The Creek Seekers: Exploring East Bay Creeks Contest”.

Go read the story, and notice the “insert stock beaver photo here” part. I wrote her that we could get her some realllllllly amazing worth a dam photos and her stories could have a truly unique and local flaire. She was very excited about that idea.

One of my favorite Cheryl Reynolds photograph is this early glimpse of a new 2008 kit. I still can’t believe how little they were.

By the way, the title is a reference to a famous (apocryphal?) line from the notorious Algonquin table…challenged to use the word “horticulture” in a sentence the brilliant Dorothy Parker quipped

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think”. I‘ve always been in awe of it.

I heard from the teachers at the highschool and middleschool that they are working for entries to the poetry contest. I also heard from the superintendent that this will be pursued at every school in the Martinez Unified School District. I like to think that the creek seekers contest will be heavily beaver-laden. Much more lively than these austere entries with only two stuffed beavers for inspiration. Here’s a little more encouragement to get you started, from an online poetry hub by a poster called “Barranca”.

By: Barranca

The Beaver and the Flyfisherman

It’s a standoff

And the Beaver is Pissed off.

The Flyfisherman sees

a likely deep pool

behind the lodge but

The Beaver sees

an Intruder.

The war begins with a sudden

loud splash behind

the Flyfisherman