My View of Life on the Dock
Nice day for watching and photographing the plunge. Good turnout of watchers and plungers. Very Poor GMG turnout. I guess we’ve all just gotten too old and soft, except Donna and her crew of course. Marty and Barbara were also there watching and photographing. Happy New Year everyone!
E.J. Lefavour
No regifted junk, like drives Joey crazy! Swap stuff that makes you proud to share with others, and makes it fun and special for all.
E.J. Lefavour
Then this is what Christmas day and this season is about for you, and I wish you a blessed and joyous Christmas. If you don’t believe, I wish you a joyful season of celebrating what you believe.
This painting is a somewhat unique representation of the well known manger scene. Mary is gazing at Jesus with awe, amazement and a little concern because, although he is holding her finger, he is not looking at her. Instead, he is gazing out of the painting at me, at you, at the world that he came to redeem. Even as a little infant, His Godhead knew why He was here. Oh come let us adore him, Immanuel “God with us”.
E.J. Lefavour
Did we have an earthquake that I missed? What’s up with these rocks unearthed, as though by themselves, on Eastern Point? Anyone know? It isn’t all rocks, just some. Curious.
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We are so blessed to live in such a beautiful place.
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Coast Guard helicopter and boat all over Smiths Cove and inner harbor. Does anyone know what is going on? They are doing a lot of hovering and searching. They are really aggressively searching Smiths Cove.
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While walking the back shore a couple of days ago, I encountered a really bad smell just before Land’s End Lane. I just had to investigate what it was, and found this small dead whale on the rocks. He’s been there a while. I couldn’t help but wonder if he might have gotten stranded around the time Martin Del Vecchio got that great right whale video, and maybe that whale was trying to help out this youngster who was in trouble caught up on the rocks. We’ll never know, but it was sad to see it.
E.J. Lefavour
Rocky Neck Plunge – New Year’s Day 2016. A great way to start the new year, whether you plunge or just come by to cheer on others taking the plunge. Bring along some donations for The Open Door Food Pantry, and come by the Cultural Center after for some warming fare and camaraderie.
This year’s Rocky Neck Holiday Arts & Crafts Festival is very special. If you haven’t checked out yet, come by Sunday for tea and treats – eating and buying kind.
E.J. Lefavour
These very strange looking objects were out on the horizon Sunday afternoon off Brace Cove. Anyone have any idea what they might be? These were two distinct, very large things quite a distance away from each other. They don’t look like any kind of tanker or ship I’ve ever seen.
E.J. Lefavour
A Call for Cookies!
3nd Annual RNAC’s “Season’s Best Cookie Competition”
Saturday, December 5, 2:00 – 4:00PM
At The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
The 3nd Annual Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival will feature the annual “Season’s Best Cookie Competition”. Any kind of home-baked cookie may be entered, except chocolate chip – everyone makes good chocolate chip cookies – as we are looking for competitors to come up different, unique and prize-winning entries.
To enter the competition:
First, second and third place prizes will be awarded, as well as a popular ballot vote (new this year! come vote!).
I’m not happy to see it, but it is pretty.
E.J. Lefavour
This was the sky on the other side of the road from where the fallstreak hole was at Good Harbor. I don’t ever remember seeing crazy cloud formations like these before in my life. I see them all the time now, and they just look very strange to me. Does anyone else find them strange?
E.J. Lefavour
Crows are very social and caring creatures, and also among the smartest animals on the planet. (See WPBS A Murder of Crows)
When I was a girl, I rescued an injured crow and nursed him back to health. The day after I released him in the back yard and he flew off, he returned with a mass murder numbering scores of crows, all cawing and covering the back yard, with him at the head of them. I guess he brought them to meet me, or they came to thank me for taking care of him. It was pretty amazing, and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
A group of crows is called a “murder.” There are several different explanations for the origin of this term, mostly based on old folk tales and superstitions.
For instance, there is a folktale that crows will gather and decide the capital fate of another crow.
Many view the appearance of crows as an omen of death because ravens and crows are scavengers and are generally associated with dead bodies, battlefields, and cemeteries, and they’re thought to circle in large numbers above sites where animals or people are expected to soon die.
But the term “murder of crows” mostly reflects a time when groupings of many animals had colorful and poetic names. Other fun examples of “group” names include: an ostentation of peacocks, a parliament of owls, a knot frogs, and a skulk of foxes.
E.J. Lefavour
They just keep getting more and more spectacular, don’t they?
E.J. Lefavour
Update: This is a photo taken by Deb Schradieck at Good Harbor Beach. She got her photo at an earlier stage than mine, before the hole had started to fill in, so you can really see how amazing it looked.
I stumbled upon a fallstreak or hole punch cloud on the internet earlier this week. It was something I had never seen before and thought it was pretty cool looking. Today, this one was hanging right over Good Harbor Beach!
A fallstreak hole, also known as a hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, skypunch, canal cloud or cloud hole, is a large circular or elliptical gap that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing but the water has not frozen yet due to the lack of ice nucleation (see supercooled water). When ice crystals do form it will set off a domino effect, due to the Bergeron process, causing the water droplets around the crystals to evaporate: this leaves a large, often circular, hole in the cloud.[1]
It is believed that the introduction of large numbers of tiny ice crystals into the cloud layer sets off this domino effect of evaporation which creates the hole. The ice crystals can be formed by passing aircraft which often have a large reduction in pressure behind the wing- or propeller-tips. This cools the air very quickly, and can produce a ribbon of ice crystals trailing in the aircraft’s wake. These ice crystals find themselves surrounded by droplets, grow quickly by the Bergeron process, causing the droplets to evaporate and creating a hole with brush-like streaks of ice crystals below it. The articles by Westbrook and Davies (2010)[2] and Heymsfield et al. (2010) [3] explain the process in more detail, and show some observations of their microphysics and dynamics. Such clouds are not unique to any one geographic area and have been photographed from many places.
Because of their rarity and unusual appearance, as well as very little exposure in media, fallstreak holes have been mistaken for or attributed to unidentified flying objects.[4]
From Wikipedia
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Good Morning Gloucester 