Field Note: Stoneflies

Stonefly sample bottle

By Rachel McKimmy 02/01/2020 My alarm wakes me up. My boyfriend is sleeping on the couch, Ford Lake a smooth gray mirror below the lightening pale-pink sky behind his head. We listen to Tom Petty on the drive to the Huron River Watershed Council, a few minutes late. It’s snowing lightly, disparate flakes drifting down…

Documentary Nonfiction

It is a rare qualification to be able to state a fact simply and adequately, to digest some experience cleanly…to conceive and suffer the truth to pass through us living and intact, even as a waterfowl an eel, as it flies over the meadows, thus stocking new waters. –Henry David Thoreau