My View of Life on the Dock
“Drawn from Life” group exhibition at Jane Deering Gallery 19 Pleasant Street Gloucester MA reception 3-5PM on Saturday May 27.  The show includes works by Cape Ann artists: Celia Eldridge, David Hruby, Erma Wheeler, Leon Doucette, Melissa Cooper; and California artists– Mary Heebner, Isabelle Greene, Connie Connally, Linda Jones.
May 22, 2017 installation view Jane Deering Gallery “Drawn From Life” exhibition
 the gallery website janedeeringgallery.com
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Photo Credit: Roger Porter
Weather permitting, Halibut Point State Park and the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club will be hosting a star party Saturday evening, May 27, next to the HPSP Visitor Center. Everyone is invited! Come look through the club’s telescopes at a thin crescent moon, Jupiter and its moons, and an array of distant deep-sky objects like galaxies, nebulae and star clusters. Unless we have overcast skies, GAAC will have telescopes set up from dusk to 10:00 pm for public viewing. Of course there is no cost.
Please park in the paved lot off of Gott Ave and walk the short distance up the hill to the Visitor Center, and please keep white lights to a minimum, so everyone’s eyes get a chance to adapt to the dark.
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets at 8:00 pm on the second Friday of the month at the Lanesville Community Center…
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Friend and East Gloucester resident Dan Allen sent along these wonderful snapshots of recent visits by songbirds in his beautiful garden. Dan’s garden is abundant with wildflowers, food, and welcome shelter for birds, bees and butterflies. Thank you Dan!
Nothing common about this gorgeous little warbler, a male Common Yellowthroat. Yellowthroats migrate north from winter homes in Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Yesterday I posted photos of a male Eastern Towhee. Dan’s photo is of the female! Wherever the male’s feathers are black, the female’s are milk chocolate brown.
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak is another nesting migrant to Cape Ann. They eat fruit, seeds, nuts, insects, and especially Love sunflower seeds. Only the males have this striking feather pattern; the female’s feathers are shaded in quiet tones of gray, tan, and brown. During the winter months, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks live in the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Look what our friend David Calvo uncovered, a nest of baby bunnies ❤
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On Sunday Rick and I took our company to the Beauport Hotel for breakfast. Sitting outside and looking at the view could have sat there all day. The buffet breakfast was outstanding. Great morning.
Bikes for rent at the Beauport Hotel
Schooner Adventure sailing by
The Beauport from the Boulevard
It only takes a few moments to take the 2017 open space survey provided by the office of Mayor Romeo Theken and The Gloucester Open Space and Recreation Committee. Thank you!
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Please join the Gloucester Clean City Commission, Councilors Melissa Cox and Sean Nolan, and Seaside Sustainability, Inc. in supporting a ban in Gloucester on all single use plastic bags and polystyrene (Styrofoam) containers like coffee cups and takeout food containers.
We believe this initiative is important in maintaining the beauty of our city and the health of our ocean and land. Given the availability of biodegradable and reusable alternatives and the economic benefits of the proposed ban, we anticipate support from Gloucester’s residents and businesses.
This proposed ban is similar to those already passed in dozens of cities and towns in Massachusetts (and counting) including our neighbors Ipswich, Manchester, Marblehead, and Newburyport. Cities and towns (and entire states – Hawaii) along the coast line of our country have been particularly vigilant in creating this ban. Just between 2015 and 2016, bills similar to ours were proposed in 23 states regarding the regulation of single use plastic bags and/or polystyrene. In a recent investigation of Gloucester Harbor using an ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle), observers reported an abundant amount of plastic bags and Styrofoam cups on the ocean floor.
There are economic and feasible alternatives to these products that all businesses, large and small can stand behind and support!
Complimentary Ladies to the Flowers in the Garden
SIF-MA NOW Supervised Injection Facilities now in Massachusetts.
It was a peaceful sunrise at Stage Fort park yesterday morning. Â Just the birds, the ocean and a view that never gets old.
Good Morning Gloucester 