“brrrrrr” bare feet on the morning frost
Photo by: Rafe Schoeberlein at the Aspen Community School

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America the Beautiful!

This amazing photo was captured by Drew Soliday age 12

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Photo by Sarah Janckila

Exploring the Basalt Regional Library!

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Indulge yourself in their beautifully crafted online book of the “Inuksuk” below.

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This workshop was made possible thanks to a grant from Environment Foundation

Slide show presentation by Emily Adams
Photos by the home school kids of the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado

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My name is Emily Adams. I attend Basalt Middle School in Basalt, Colorado. I would like to share with you my vision for Earth Day in a slide show presentation that I have made.

All images within the show were created by myself since I was eight years old. Some of my friends have been kind enough to share a few quotes in the presentation.

Please feel welcome to forward my show to others, so we all can work together to create a healthy planet.

I would enjoy hearing your comments on my show.
Enjoy!

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In celebration of Earth Day, the Roaring Fork Valley home school kids wish to share their images, written words and experiences about the future and health of our planet. Our photo workshop offered the children the opportunity to capture and highlight the change of seasons. We marveled in the kids excitement as they captured moments of discovery.

“Pine trees give you lots of air, pine cones, and sap. We need to help the Earth so we’ll always have pine trees.” Samantha Skilton, age 6
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“We need fish to survive.” – Manning Walker, age 6
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Photo by Zach Schwentor
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“Helping our planet now will make everything live. I like the rocks and they are beautiful.” – TJ Rickard, age 5
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“Cattails are home to lots of wildlife that live near water.” – Ruby Walker, age 4
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“We can keep the ducks safe by not polluting the rivers.” – Margot Kulberg, age 11
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“This park is lovely with the red rocks and the red trees” – Coralie Aziah Ahrenskeaff, age 3 1/2
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“I took this picture because this pond is cleaner most other and I wanted to show people this is what a clean pond looks like if you keep the earth clean.” – Julia Schwentor
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“This picture shows spring with winter melting away. ” – Emma Willow Sundstrom, age 7.
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“Instead of throwing trash in God’s creation, we can throw it in the garbage.” – Abby Rickard, age 8
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“If we don’t help the Earth, we won’t have nice clean water, just sludge.” – Derek Skilton age 11
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“Seeing this picture makes me feel like I am in a deeply wooded forest with pines surrounding me. It inspires me to help protect and preserve forests everywhere.” – Autumn Sundstrom, age 13.
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“We can keep the trees tall and beautiful by making them have enough water and carbon dioxide to live.” – Reed Kulberg, age 8
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This workshop was made possible thanks to a grant from Environment Foundation

This amazing image was photographed by Jesse Floria – 6th grade. Here’s Jesse’s caption:
“The water texture looks so smooth in some parts and so rough in the middle. It looks like liquid silver.”

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Enjoy their photographic journey!
- Cath

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Image captions are below each photo.

Photo by Jesse Floria / Basalt Middle School

The water texture looks so smooth in some parts and so rough in the middle. It looks like liquid silver.

Photo by Spencer Ellsperman / Basalt Elementary School

Fall Mixture of fall objects.

Photo by Chase Ellsperman / Basalt Middle School

When I took pictures of water, you could see in the water, but you could also see the reflection. I liked all of the different angles in the pictures and how colorful the pictures were.

Photo by Jacque Cote / Basalt Middle School

Two leaves covered in morning dew at Arbaney Park in Basalt, Colorado.

Photo by Emily Adams / Basalt Middle School

Contrast

Photo by Spencer Ellsperman / Basalt Elementary School

Water Rocks - Rocks mixed with water makes a good combination.

Photo by Chase Ellsperman / Basalt Middle School

When I took pictures of water, you could see in the water, but you could also see the reflection. I liked all of the different angles in the pictures and how colorful the pictures were.

Photo by Jesse Floria / Basalt Middle School

If you look closely at the leaf you can see lots of colors. I also like the way it goes with the background green color.

Photo by Jacque Cote / Basalt Middle School

I leaned my head into a bush of purple cone flowers and took a picture which made it look like they were everywhere.

Photo by Emily Adams / Basalt Middle School

Rain drops on long and tall grasses.

Photo by Chase Ellsperman / Basalt Middle School

When I took pictures of water, you could see in the water, but you could also see the reflection. I liked all of the different angles in the pictures and how colorful the pictures were.

Photo by Spencer Ellsperman / Basalt Elementary School

The mountainside has beautiful colors and bushes.

Photo by Emily Adams / Basalt Middle School

Beautiful colors of fall.

Photo by Jacque Cote / Basalt Middle School

A side view of a worm shriveled up on a sidewalk.

Photo by Jesse Floria / Basalt Middle School

This is a mysterious leg and it looks like it is walking in Heaven.

A classic autumn morning was spent with students (grades 5-8) at the Aspen Community School. Bluebird skies, snow capped mountain tops, an array of fall colored leaves along with a group of enthusiastic kids greeted us! Our guided photo workshops were blended into the students present studies of a “Sense of Place”, a lesson in natural history. Students along with their teachers, Garry Pfaffman and LouRae Doyle, explored their campus surroundings in a new and refreshing perspective. We appreciated the kids mentioning how our photography workshops opened their eyes to things they had taken for granted and allowed them to reconnect with their surroundings. Each child’s experience was rounded out by selecting a favorite image and writing a short caption of what inspired them. Thanks for having us!
- Gregg and Catherine

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