On the banks of the Wabash. (Near the Atheneum in New Harmony.)

Another way to support the local bee population: plant enough basil that you can allow some to bloom and go to seed. The bees (around here anyway) go nuts for it.

Another good documentary on New Harmony, produced by Indiana University. This one gives more information about the Harmonists, a community of apocalyptic Lutherans. They first established the settlement on the Wabash but, after ten years, sold it to Robert Owen and moved back to Pennsylvania.

Good video about the remarkable Robert Owen, textile manufacturer, co-operative socialist, and founder of the utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana—which I’ll be visiting on Wednesday.

Grist mill at Spring Mill State Park. It’s our local state park and it’s easy to forget how beautiful a place it is.

A friend invited me to take what I wanted from a stack of old records he inherited. Some good stuff, especially a stack of Frank Sinatra. But the thing I love most is this absolutely metal cover art on a Jerry Falwell recording. I’ll throw out the record but I want to do something with this cover.

Made a pasta tree for Rachel to dry her homemade pasta.

Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari with some top notch Earth First! tunes. (In this case, BLM refers to the Bureau of Land Management.)

We’ve seen a monarch butterfly several days this week and yesterday spotted a yellow swallowtail butterfly. Rachel also found a swallowtail caterpillar this week in addition to the four monarch caterpillars.

Once I get this next big batch of work to the auditors, I think I’ll take a day off. I want to plan a solo, local, day-long road trip. A combination of sites from Roadside America, historic cemeteries, and sites from this video (the narrator isn’t the best, bless him, but his videos are useful).