My View of Life on the Dock
I just took a moment to look through the random folder of photos that I store for quick blog posts when I don’t have much time to craft something longer. I was surprised to see how many photos I’ve tossed in their and have yet to share. Like this one…
Join Backyard Growers to harvest, cook, and eat a delicious vegetarian meal inspired by the summer garden! Participants will be led by community gardeners and Backyard Growers staff and will leave with recipes, tips, and tricks to make seasonal menus at home. Not an experienced cook? No problem! We’ll go over the basics, so all levels of cooking experience are welcome.
At The Open Door, 28 Emerson Ave, Gloucester
Family Night – Bring the kids! August 1; 6-7:30 pm; Sign up here or email community@backyardgrowers.org to reserve your spot today!
Senior Night August 8; 6:30-8 pm; Sign up here or email community@backyardgrowers.org to reserve your spot today!
Here is a high definition version of yesterday’s post of the 2017 Blackburn Challenge. I was unable to post the HD video yesterday due to technical problems. The quality of this video is far superior to the prior one.Thanks.
Exciting Trailer by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Not Without the Rest by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Happy Belly 3 Duncan Street, Gloucester, MA.
Our coffee roaster The Tin Man-
Our Gloucester Sourdough (did you know every city has Sourdough unique to it’s location?)
Our Sourdough starter Gertrude
Our Pineapple Coconut Cake-
Our Key Lime Pie-
My friend Patti Papows very thoughtfully invited me to come film and take photos in her gorgeous garden, especially her milkweed patch. Patti purchased milkweed plants from our Cape Ann Milkweed Project several years ago, both the Common and Marsh Milkweed that we offered.
Patti’s Common Milkweed has really taken off this year. The plants are about five feet tall, lush and healthy, and bursting with sweetly fragrant blossoms. The Monarchs are daily visitors, coming not by the ones and twos, but by the dozen. Not only are her milkweed blossoms beckoning to the Monarchs, but the plants are also attracting every bee species imaginable found in a Cape Ann garden, as well as myriad other pollinating insects.
I showed Patti how to find Monarch caterpillars. She found three in about three minutes; we weren’t even trying that hard! They are safer from spiders in my terrariums, so I brought her tiny caterpillars home where they are developing nicely alongside a dozen Monarch eggs. These eggs were discovered in my garden, and at the Common Milkweed plants growing along the edges of the Good Harbor Beach parking lot.
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Patti’s patch of native highbush blueberries attracts loads of Catbirds, and dozens more species of songbirds and small mammals. This morning the foliage made a perfect perch for a male Monarch butterfly.
In the above photo you can clearly see the Monarch’s two-part tubular drinking straw, called a proboscis. The Monarch is probing deep into the Milkweed floret for a sip of sweet nectar.
Who, me? I’m innocent! Chipmunk snacking at the buffet-of-plenty in Patti’s garden.
Patti placed the purple chair in the midst of the milkweed patch so that visitors can enjoy being surrounded by the beautiful pollinators buzzing all around and the delightful fragrance emitted by the Common Milkweed. I tried it out and her plan worked, it is pure Heaven!
I had an absolutely wonderful morning filming and photographing, despite the limiting overcast skies, and plan to return on a sunnier day, hopefully this week while the Monarchs are here on Cape Ann busy egg-laying and pollinating our gardens!
Patti shares that at the end of the day, her Monarchs are nectaring from the flowering hosta. She sent these photos this morning, taken yesterday afternoon with her cell phone.
Don’t miss Nathan’s Auk Talk tomorrow, Tuesday night, at the Paint Factory, 32 Horton Street, at 7pm. The talk is free and open to the public.
I can’t wait to see the head!
Kayaking in Gloucester Harbor on Saturday was so glorious. Rick and I were out there about 4 hours, as we were coming in this sight looked so pretty.
Apparently they have already cast the part of Jo Hopper (1883-1968), depicted sketching here in Gloucester on Good Harbor Beach, in a watercolor portrait by her husband, Edward Hopper (1882-1967), in the collection of the Whitney Museum.
From CP CASTING
CASTING MALE LEAD
Hopper’s Ghosts by Kevin Rice
Role: Edward Hopper, painter, age range, 40 – 55, tall, over 6’2″. Cultured, well-read, sophisticated, stoic, great sense of humor. Looking for experienced actor for two-character play about the famous realist painter Edward Hopper and his wife Jo.
Rehearsals begin August 21, 2017
and play runs September 6-17, 2017.
This is a Payomet Performing Arts Center production with performances at the Provincetown Theater. Looking for union and non-union actors. Housing provided. Please send resume and headshot to: Kevin Rice: ricenow@yahoo.com
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More seaside little libraries on Cape Ann http://www.littlefreelibrary.org
Couple from Florida enjoying a stroll through the woods
Family enjoy Halibut Point
Early morning runs and/or walks mean getting to say “Good Morning” to this guy.
@webergrills First second and third generation Performers. One Dove Grey, one Spring Green.
GloucesterCast 234 With Robert Walsh, Heidi Dallin , Cast Members From The Rainmaker, Wayne Berger, Cat Ryan Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 7/23/17
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If you know me you know that I’m an absolute numbskull with tools or doing any type of installation work that involves my hands.
After reading about bias lighting strips which throw light from the back of your TV or under cabinets or on top of cabinets or behind desks and reading the absolute ton of glowing (pardon the pun) reviews on Amazon, I figured for $9.99 what did I have to lose.
Let me tell you, this dummy (read me Joey Ciaramitaro) and my lovely wife (it’s kinda a forgone conclusion by now isn’t it?) installed it on our TV in less than a minute and the results are AWESOME!!!!!
You literally measure it out, peel the backing tape off and plug the usb into one of the usb ports on the back of your tv. it goes on when your TV is on, it turns off when you power off the tv. No need for another remote. It makes the darks look darker. it makes the lights lighter, it reduces eye strain and it just truly looks cool and not in a cheesy way at all. The design-wise very fussy Kate loves it so you know it’s cool as shit.
I likes it so much I ordered 4 more for the other TVs and the back of Kate’s desk.
Here’s the link to purchase on Amazon
This picture doesn’t do it a bit of justice- it’s truly awesome.
Good Morning Gloucester 