My View of Life on the Dock
One of the most viewed photos of the horribles parade on my photostream was this one:
These fellows are on the float for a new website, The Bridge. They host videos, a short-format news feed, a blog, and more, from/about local Cape Ann businesses and organizations. It’s a helpful and well-presented resource that complements GoodMorningGloucester and helps spread the news about all the great things going on here on Cape Ann!
…I think I would buy one of these if they took the advertisement text off the top. I just love the absurdity of it!
What a conversation piece, right? “Dude, what’s that on your tee-shirt?” “It’s a fire-breathing liger riding a pickle over a double rainbow. Isn’t it obvious?”
Seen in the window of the G33K store at 130 Main Street.
-Fr. Matthew Green
… a few performances are left, at The Annie! If you haven’t seen it yet… what are you waiting for? I went last night for the first time, and there was a full house, so you might want to make reservations. The show was great! Here are a few photos. I’ll be posting these and a few more to my flickr photostream soon.
-Fr. Matthew Green
A while back I mentioned Alexander Thompson’s delicious tomato marmalade (I mentioned it here and here). It might sound unexpected (I had never heard of tomato marmalade before), but tomatos are fruit, and Alexander’s recipe really works. They served it at the opening of The Cave with cheese and crackers, which was a great combination, but it’s also good on plain old toast for breakfast!
I put it on whole wheat toast with a glass of orange juice. Just a part of this nutritious breakfast!
You can buy it on line or, today, at the Thursday Cape Ann Farmers’ Market at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester, 3-6PM under the blue tent.
He also makes the most addicting bread & butter pickles… also available on line and at the Farmer’s Market.
Café Bischo is a little restaurant at 51 Main Street. Yesterday I had supper there with a friend, and it was great as always! We ate at a table outside on the sidewalk, enjoying the sunny summer evening.
I had their “Mediterranean Vegetable Soup”:
It was delicious, and was accompanied by heated, buttered, fresh bread, which was perfect for dipping in the tomato-based broth.
The sun shone bright through my glass of water:
To be honest, all I can vouch for from personal experience is their soup. That’s the only thing I’ve ever eaten at this venue (and at several other restaurants), because I am a huge soup fan, and their soup is always good! But the people with whom I have eaten there have also enjoyed their victuals, whether soup or otherwise. Plus, I have seen a steady flow of people buying their ice cream or frozen yogurt, so that must be good too!
Actually, I can also vouch for their friendly customer service. So, if while on or near Main Street, you get a hankering for a bite to eat, hot or cold, you should give Café Bishco a try!
“Retrospect” is a euphemistic way to say that I’m a bit late in getting these photos ready to post. But you didn’t really want to get bombarded with all the photos of the parade from all the contributors at once, did you?
As a newcomer who moved here less than a year ago, the whole Fiesta and 4th of July week experience has been a lot of fun! The Horribles parade was bigger than I expected, and well worth watching.
So, here are a few of my shots of the parade. The full set can be seen as a slideshow or one by one on my photostream on Flickr.
See these bigger, and lots more, here:
I hear that it will be opening in a couple of weeks! The sign on the fence says that they are hiring now…
-Fr. Matthew Green
-Fr. Matthew Green
I didn’t get to all the events, but I got some good shots of several events with my iPhone, which I published on Instagram (@mehjg). Here are a few:
For more, click here (a slideshow) or here (my Instagram photos on Webstagram)
Photos taken of the fireworks last night, from my perch on the roof of the rectory:
Special thanks and prayers for all the men and women who have served their country to help protect and defend our freedom!
Besides the fireworks, what a beautiful moon we had last night…
-Fr. Matthew Green
It’s easy to take it for granted that we live in a city with lots of beauty, so it’s good to be reminded now and then that we are surrounded by works of art and ingenuity. For instance, I like this mural on the side of the Benjamin Moore store on Railroad Ave. – not just because it’s well painted, but because it is somewhat self-referential: a painting (on a paint store) of painters painting the wall they are painted on…
Eventually I plan to get photos of more of our city’s murals…
-Fr. Matthew Green
Actually, this must be a reflection of a reflection, because it’s an east-facing window…
-Fr. Matthew Green
About a week ago I posted from the annual Origami USA convention in New York City. At the end of this post, I’ll include some photos of the amazing work that was on display there. To help bring some of that origami goodness to Gloucester, I’ll be teaching a class at The Annie as part of the “Beyond Imagine” series of art workshops, on July 17 at 7PM ($5 donation The Annie per participant). The date was originally going to be on July 3, and that date was informally announced, but then we realized it would be overlapping with The Horribles Parade, and that would be a bad idea…
I’ll start off with some simple models, and will work up to more complex designs as time and the ability of the participants allows. The Annie is located on Washington Street, just north of the intersection with Main Street, in the Blackburn Tavern building (on the floor above Giuseppe’s).
To inspire you to learn origami, here are some photos of truly impressive origami from the exhibit at year’s convention, folded by artists from around the world:
The new geek-oriented shop (G33K) at 130 Main Street has opened! They don’t have their full line of items in stock yet, but among the things they do have are T-shirts. Among their many prints are these great Fiesta-themed designs, held here by the store owner, Allen Chamberlain:
Let’s look at those closer up. The one on the left is for those of us who are nostalgic for the good old video games like Mario Brothers:
The other appeals more to the Italian spirit:
But the coolness of these shirts isn’t just in their design. They are actually printed right in the store while you wait, so you can choose the color and size of the shirt, and if you are lucky you might even get to look behind the scenes and watch the shirt get printed and then “cooked” to make the colors last. Here are some shots of one of the Greasy Pole shirts being printed:
Then it gets “baked” to fix the pigments:
All of this in a matter of maybe 15 minutes. And he can print custom T-shirts with the same process, although getting your home-made computer art ready to print can take a bit longer, apparently.
They also sell other things related to video games, role-playing games, etc., but I was told one of our other blog contributors is preparing a post about the store in general, so I won’t go into detail. However, I couldn’t help wanting to highlight these great shirts this weekend, and the high-tech in-store process behind them!
-Fr. Matthew Green
The Gloucester Lyceum and Free Public Library, and the Unitarian Universalist Church.
-Fr. Matthew Green
A fire escape on Center Street. I stood there for a minute or two getting a few different shots, and as I walked away, a woman asked me what I was photographing. I showed her the photos, and she agreed it was a nice subject… then said she was asking because it is her building! I bet she was worried that I might have some bad intent, maybe scoping the place out for a break-in or something. Not to worry!
-Fr. Matthew
-Fr. Matthew Green
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