“ My writing and photography help me connect with the natural world around me.
My goal is to help others experience that powerful connection. ”
Books by Emily Stone
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Larry Stone’s Iowa: Listening to the Land
Turkey Float
A calm, blue-sky May day, with the Turkey River running clear and stable. Spring migrants singing from the trees along the river banks. Redhorse…
Happy Earth Day!
As an organizer of the FIRST Earth Day, in 1970, I celebrate the 50th anniversary. Yes, I mean FIRST. We University of Michigan students held…
Hog Confinements and Human Health
I like pork. Always have. Even when I had to earn my bacon and ham and sausage and chops by shoveling manure from the hog…
Happy 2019
Happy SNOWY New Year! At least here in Clayton County . . . Nearly all December we waited. Where is the snow? The few skiffs…
I thought it was APRIL!
The turkey vultures and killdeers arrived weeks ago. The Canada goose already is on her nest on the island in the pond. Song sparrows have…
Back to the Boundary Waters!
Majestic pines. Pristine lakes. Rugged portages. Eagles and loons and ravens and gray jays and red-breasted nuthatches. Billion-years-old bedrock and cliffs and boulders. The satisfaction…
The joys of summer into fall
When August gives way to September, the grandkids figure summer is over. Back to school, no more swimming or baseball. But this 70-something Grandpa welcomes…