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Volume 17, Number 29 | September 4-10, 2025
RAMS
from above
On Tuesday, Sept. 2, Crystal River Elementary School students, donning yellow, blue and black, formed the image of a Ram for an aerial photo taken by Daniel Dancer of Art for the Sky, an organization that engages communities to come together and create symbolic art viewed from above. And it took some work! Leading up to picture day, students helped prepare the design and the day of, with direction from Dancer, teachers wrangled students into their positions, instructing them to keep their “heads down and backs to the sky.”
Photo by James Steindler
The 427 figure at the top of the photo signifies the parts-per-million carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere today. When Dancer started Art for the Sky, in 1999, that number was 385. “The safe level scientists have determined is 350,” Dancer told The Sopris Sun. “The last time it was 427 was several million years ago, [with] no humans on a very different planet.” Photo courtesy of Daniel Dancer, Art for the Sky
Daniel Dancer (left) and Principal Kendall Reiley (right). Photo by James Steindler