Good Morning Gloucester

Rockport’s “4th” of July Parade!

Help Us Reach Our Goal of a Dock, Win a Crew Shirt

From Ocean Alliance;

“We are halfway to our goal of raising enough funds to put in a floating dock at our headquarters, the Paint Factory in Gloucester. If we’re going to reach our goal of celebrating staff-member Kim’s birthday on the dock this month we need to step up the pace.

Our new Operation Toxic Gulf 2014 Crew shirts are not available to the public, but now you have a chance to own one of your own. For a donation of $20 or more towards our dock fundraiser you will be entered to win a limited edition OTG 2014 Crew Shirt designed by Michael Beasley of Sea Shepherd Australia. For a donation of $100 or more you will be entered to win two Crew shirts and a cd of Songs of the Humpback Whale signed by Roger Payne.”

Click Here for More Information from Ocean Alliance

http://www.whale.org/help-us-reach-goal-dock-win-crew-shirt/

 

 

 

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The funniest part of the Horrible’s Parade the other day, you may ask?   Well, for me, it was watching one of the floats hand out dog treats while parading some furry friends along the route.  That in itself wouldn’t have been funny, but hearing one of the women tell our very own Joey to, “Give the dog treat to his favorite pooch” while getting dangerously close to him with one of her canine friends was priceless.  His grimace could have moved mountains….involuntary or not.  If you’ve been a FOB for anytime….you know that Joey is not necessarily a Fan of Dogs.

I think you’re either a dog person or not…

I am absolutely a dog person…as are my boys.   We have two German Shorthaired Pointers…Moby and Marlin.  Finn, in particular, cannot pass by a dog while walking through downtown Rockport (or anywhere else) without patting it and asking 20 questions about its name, breed, age, hobbies, etc.  So stay clear if you’re walking a dog and in a rush.

Consider this a call to dog lovers to submit your photos of dogs doing funny dog things.

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A sneak peek of the Gloucester Garden Tour on Sat., July 12 at 10 am to noon. Sponsored by the Generous Gardeners.

Here is more info on the blog:
http://www.generousgardeners.org/Blog/

Joey says “Flintstones got nuttin on yo ribs son!”

Dats real talk from Capin’ Joe!

 

The Summer Glare

 

Aboard the Pequod, Ishmael describes the

Japanese Sea as illumined by “freshets of effulgences”

or overflowing streams of brilliant light.

Did he, while in Nantucket, not experience

what we, in Gloucester, find daily in our summer sky?

 

Here, where the ocean cleanses the air and

allows the sun to reach us without filter;

where most summer days produce an explosion

of light that washes out the brilliant colors

around us and makes us squint to get around town;

 

Where shadows are not soft and moody, but

are stark and sharp, and walking down a flight

of outside stairs requires most careful placement

of our feet, and where we learn to recognize

people and places by their silhouettes,

 

and where sun and sand and sea glare so that we

sense the beach, rather than see it, like actors

looking past the footlights to an unseen audience,

and where patterns in the sand go unnoticed

as we walk the shore into the cauldron’s fearsome light.

 

It’s as if we cannot be trusted with

the airs of summer; that we must be

protected from the magnificence around us

lest we succumb to this abundance of beauty

if we should see all that is within the glare.

 

© Marty Luster 2012