Nature Journaling with Valerie Bayer

Valerie Bayer is joining us this month to talk about exploring and studying nature, including birds, through pictures, numbers, and words in a nature journal. To record our observations of trees, plants, birds, and other elements of nature, in a sit spot or on a hike, we must slow down and more carefully look, listen, smell, touch, and maybe even taste our surroundings. A nature journal can deepen our experience of and relationship to nature.

Valerie spent her Ohio childhood outdoors, exploring, playing in the creeks, and trying to avoid school. Currently, she is a Montana Master Naturalist and has been nature journaling since 2009. Valerie volunteered at Montana Natural History Center for over 8 years with an emphasis on the Master Naturalist Program and was also involved as a Visiting Naturalist in the Schools.  Her history as a volunteer extends to Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks and Mineral County Conservation District.  Clearly, she loves the outdoors and has had a long relationship with nature. Valerie has taught nature journaling at Bitterroot College, local libraries, and high schools. In addition, she organizes nature journaling conferences and workshops. Valerie's mission is to coach others in getting their relationship with nature onto paper through nature journaling.

Our meeting and Valerie’s presentation will be held at 7 P.M. in the gymnasium of the Bitterroot Valley Church of the Nazarene’s Neely Center, at 5th Ave and A St. in Victor. We thank the Church for their generosity in allowing us to meet in their gym. We should be able to spread out and lessen the chances for spread of colds, the flu, and Covid. While Valerie is not using a PowerPoint that could be shared with a Zoom audience, we are still going to attempt a very basic, low-tech hybrid meeting. I will simply aim my computer, logged into Zoom, at Valerie and her easel. We hope members who need or want to stay home can learn from Valerie through this simple Zoom approach.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 

When: Oct 17, 2022 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) 

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