Loom of a Fireweaver

Last week we went to one of Stuart's preserves (Ober Savanna) and took some pictures of Midori amongst the Lupines:










It was beautiful. There really are so many great places to see in Northern Indiana. You don't really think of it as a bastion of natural beauty, but it is. It can be an achingly beautiful place. When it isn't plowed under or drained, that is.

I think I'm going to try to get together a trip down to Fall Creek Gorge (another one of Stuart's preserves) later this summer. If there's a more spiritual place in Indiana, I haven't seen it. Every other week Stuart's getting calls from Church groups asking if they can hold baptisms there. The place is filled with this amazing raw energy. There are huge dug outs made by boulders spinning in place on the sandstone creek bottom. The boulders wore down to pebbles in the creek and created massive potholes in the gorge. There's a waterfall, cliffs, dinosaur tracks. It's amazing. Here's the TNC's official website: http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/work/art7920.html
and another one with better pictures: http://dcwi.com/~eric/goot/fallcrk.htm