My View of Life on the Dock
You would think I might have been relaxed by looking at the first picture but due to my extreme fear of heights my heart was beating about a million beats per second.
Take a good look at that mellon on the Rabbit would you? It’s like Elvis went gay and had sex with bhudda and somehow this was the offspring that resulted. And not the young Elvis that all the young girls wet their panties over, the coked out peanut butter twinkie eating Elvis just before he croaked on the crapper.
I love you man.
I need to uncork this jar and get at least two miracles right now…
The pottery in the sunlight was bought at Bodin Historic Photo and Fine Art which sells a variety of this kind of pottery by a local artist. Bodin is having an open event with wine, cheese and chocolate this Saturday night from 5-9PM – come wearing red! The Celtic-ornamented pewter cup in the shadow in this photo is Irish pewter sold at The Pewter Shop in Rockport. Two of our many fine Cape Ann establishments!
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Served Friday Feb 10 – Tuesday Feb 14
On Valentine’s Day – Each dinner comes with a rose!
Tuffy writes-
Pictured here is my buddy Maya . She managed to land this barracuda off the north coast of honduras . Her father and myself helped her land it outside of the reefs of the island of roatan. Maya is Smart, Sweet and afraid of NOTHING !!!
Manny Simoes photo
There will be a Bowl painting event to benefit the Open Door on Saturday, February 11, from 4 to 6, at Trinity Congregational Church, 70 Middle Street Gloucester. The bowls are made and donated by local potters, painted by volunteers like you and sold at the “Empty Bowl Meal” in May. There is no charge but there will a good-will collection of canned goods or money for the Open Door.
Paul’s Memorial Bench
Paul’s Memorial Bench was installed today By the DPW. They did a great job.
Thanks go out to Ward 2 City Councilor Melissa Cox for pointing me the in the right direction, Mark Cole of the DPW for making it an easy process and Mount Pleasant Memorials for doing such a great job on the Plaque.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/935678-196/witnesses-nashua-man-paul-frontiero-knifed-to.html
Another milestone should fall Saturday Morning- 20,000 posts on GMG since inception, December 29, 2007
We wouldn’t have done it without the friendships and encouragement from you, our GMG community.
So thank you to our contributors, our commentors and our readership.
It’s been a fun ride and I plan to keep bringing the fun and strive to make GMG your first stop on the interwebs.
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You know who you are. All those foursquare users that feel it necessary to automatically tweet your every location and when you become "mayor" of the Starbucks on 43rd street or that you ousted someone as king of the portable toilets. Personal Note: No One Cares!!!!
If you add a photo of a meal there or of the scene perhaps that would be of some value, but to simply state where you are, think about it, have you ever given a shit when you read someone else’s "check-in" tweet of where they are? i can tell you that NO ONE CARES.
Finally there is an agency looking out for the welfare of twitter users and their sanity against useless tweets.
The Twitter Police
Bad Boys Bad Boys What Cha Gonna Do?
Here are some examples of Tweets that should never have entered cyberspace (and I enjoy most of what these people tweet otherwise)-
Conversely some examples of tweets that are of value-
I have to say that the magic that is Rocky Neck never ceases to amaze. I’ve never been on a whale watch or seen a whale up close and personal; but I did today in Smiths Cove on Rocky Neck. This fellow cruised up and down Rocky Neck, obviously a little disoriented and not able to find his way back out again. Debbie and Peter Schradieck were visiting Madfish Wharf and spotted him first and came to find me to come see him. Wendie Demuth was there too so we all ran down to the Marine Railways and photographed him from the end of the railways pier. Peter estimated his length to be between 25-30′ and that he was a fin whale. I’ve also included a photo from the internet of a beached fin whale, which has the same bumpy head feature you can see on this whale, and the fin which you can see in the last photo of the series, although it could also be his tail. Hopefully that won’t be the fate of this one. Peter did call the Coast Guard and alert them of his presence in Smiths Cove.
The fin whale is the second largest animal in the world after the blue whale, the fastest swimming of all the large whales (sometimes called the greyhound of the seas) and the commonest of the large baleen whales. This one certainly was fast, as he would come up in one spot on the cove and a minute later be coming up again at a spot a good distance away, so quickly that at first we thought there were two of them. I hope he can find his way out, as he should be on his way to warmer waters now, and there won’t be any food for him in Smiths Cove.
E.J. Lefavour
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Sunset and full moon photos Tues. evening 2-7-12
–Len Burgess
Came across this Easter egg while walking around Annisquam. Looks like even the Easter Bunny is confused by this springlike weather, or maybe he’s trying to move in on Paul’s ArtRock niche.
E.J. Lefavour
Niles Pond
My favorite places and time of day to walk our sweet terrier Miss Rosie Money Penny (also know as Rosie, Rosa, Rosalicious, Rosalita, Rosebud, Rose-Muffin, Rosie-Pie…) is at sunset and all around my East Gloucester neighborhood and water’s edge of Eastern Point. The above photo was taken from the narrow strip of land that separates Niles Pond from Brace Cove. It is believed that at one point, not too long ago, Niles Pond was a lagoon, which was sealed off by rising sand and rock. Over time, it became a fresh water pond, fed by springs and rainfall.
Surrounded by reflected light from the sea, sunsets are gorgeous from nearly any Cape Ann vantage point. Luminous light is made all the more atmospheric from moisture in the air; combine that when seen through the golden lambent glow of sun’s low slanting rays– I call that heaven on earth! Click photo to see full size image.
Wonson’ Cove Rocky Neck
Singer/songwriter and Noise Magazine founder/editor T Max continues walking Gloucester’s music scene in Part 3 of gimmesound’s Artist of the Week series: Part 1 here & Part 2 here
Today he transforms a woman on the street into a new music fan with a shout out to Bandit Kings and a special appearance at the end by one of Gloucester’s best musicians, who rarely performs live.
Great music around town see the full list here and a Local Brews Beer Dinner with music ~ what more could you want? Get out tonight and have some fun!
Good Morning Gloucester 