Audubon Magazine

Most of my "activism" has been with a credit card or email window. After all this
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862838384/an-avid-birder-talks-about-a-conflict-in-central-park-he-taped-and-went-viral
I decided the best way to honor Christian Cooper was to donate (in his honor) to the national Audubon society, of which he is a board member. This required a phone call, and I thought I was clear that I wasn't joining the organization, just doing a one-time commemoration. I have started receiving the magazine anyway. It's about birds. It's *really* about birds. Any environmental reporting (there is a useful article about nurdles*, for example) is about how the environmental problem affects birds. Maybe this shouldn't be surprising, but I was surprised. When Flo was a kid, we belonged to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, so that we could visit their local sites, especially Drumlin Farm. I read their magazine, Sanctuary, at least partly because the graphic designer was a friend, Valerie Bessette (of blessed memory). Their 200th and final issue was in 2014, and it's available online. https://www.massaudubon.org/content/download/12534/197327/file/mpa-sanctuary-summer2014-full.pdf
As I remembered, it's about nature, not just birds specifically, and in this issue, there was a bit of politics, talking about how governments could prepare for climate change, and their regular poetry feature.
Now that I'm getting the Audubon magazine, I felt that I should use it. There is a how-to-draw-a-bird page. I tried it. The result is not too convincing, but I think people would know that I was intending to draw a bird. It may be the first actual drawing I've tried to do since I finished the drawing class I took at UMass Lowell ten years ago. Maybe I should try again sometime.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZrNy7Flw4

Peaches!

Arthur came home from the farmers' market with peaches (and lots of other produce). The best thing to do would be
Eat them as-is, standing over the sink
Make cobbler (it's supposed to be cooler tomorrow)

I think that was it!

After five consecutive nights of trying, to greater or lesser degrees, I think I may have seen the comet through the 7x50 mm binoculars we originally bought in 1986 to see Halley's comet (the fuzzy garbanzo bean, as it was famously called that year). Standing in the driveway tonight, judging from the map of ursa major, I think the fuzzy thing just below the power wires was it. Over the nights I've also seen a shooting star and a satellite. Good enough.