“ 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
Natural Connections: Exploring Northwoods Nature through Science and Your Senses
This book is currently for sale only through Cable Museum. the button below will take you to that site.
Natural Connections 2: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer
This book is currently for sale only through Cable Museum. The button below will take you to that site.
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Larry Stone’s Iowa: Listening to the Land
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It’s starting to feel like a real Iowa winter!
Good thing the tractor still runs, because the snow-bladed-off-the-driveway pile is nearing record proportions.
The farm store clerks …
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 …
Prairie STRIPS photo by Omar de Kok-Mercado
As an organizer of the FIRST Earth Day, in 1970, I celebrate
the 50th anniversary. Yes, I mean FIRST. We …
Is your pork raised in a sewer?
I like pork.
Always have.
Even when I had to earn my bacon and ham and sausage and chops
by shoveling manure …
Happy SNOWY New Year!
At least here in Clayton County . . .
Nearly all December we waited.
Where is the snow?
The few skiffs we had weren’t enough …
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 been singing …