Oh my! Those videos are amazing. We have bobcats here but I've never had the luck of seeing one. So interesting that they have such short tails. I guess it's just those in the lynx family of cats that have those tails? Beautiful animals.

@Denny I've never seen one either. I did once see what might have been one way down a trail (formerly railroad). It seemed too big to be a cat but had that distinctive cat shape. But as I say, it was far off and I may have misjudged the size.

Thanks for posting the link to the video. I enjoyed it.

Yes, non-Hoosiers: there is a BeanBlossom, Indiana.

@ReaderJohn Ha! Indeed there is. :) Also a Buddha, pronounced Booty by the locals.

@JMaxB I don't know if that's still going on. I just remember BeanBlossom from my law school years in Bloomington.

@ReaderJohn @JMaxB It is still active. Checking on it has sent me down a rabbit hole related to the gospel bluegrass band The Isaacs, who were really important to Rachel and me early on in our relationship. One of the guys who married into that band is the opening act this year.

@JMaxb FWIW, my parish has a group, now awfully busy parenting, called Small Town Hero, whose style was labeled “Byzantine Bluegrass.” They made a commercial CD that sold out. I hear rumors that they are working on some new music now.

@JMaxB I am wondering whether the classically-trained violinist in the group is maybe working on a setting of Gerald Moultrie‘s Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent.