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Musings on the Fearless Little Wood-Satyr From Kim Smith

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 Check out her blog here

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Little Wood-satyr (ventral)

Dear Gardening Friends,

Although it may seem as though I have been unplugged as of late, I am actually becoming more plugged-in than ever (is this a good thing?) as I am in the process of teaching myself how to edit and combine my video clips and photos. To be sure, editing is easy for my techno savvy friends, but I find it time consuming beyond measure. The net result is that I will be able to passalong more good information. For example, the latest video posted on my blog shows the ventral (underside) and dorsal (topside) of the Little Wood-satyr, as well as its light brown and tan forms. Hopefully, this will help us to better identify, and provide sustenance for, the beautiful pollinators that are attracted to our habitat gardens.

The fearless Little Wood-satyr (Megisto cymela cymela) stayed for several days. While photographing, he alighted on my camera and then onto my hand. As you can see, there wasn’t much remaining of his left wing.

Little Wood-satrys are found throughout the eastern United States (except northern New England) and southeastern Canada, Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas and eastern Wyoming, and north to Saskatchewan. The first of its kind to arrive in our garden, we more typically observe the Little Wood-satyr along the wooded edge of clearings and quarries. The body color varies from light brown to tan. The following photos show the light brown version and were taken at a quarry in Rockport where I noticed both tan and light brown forms. Little Wood-satrys are on the wing in the northeast from May through July. The females land on a blade of grass and walk down to the base where she deposits a single egg. The caterpillars feed at night on various grasses including Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata), Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis), Centipede Grass (Eremochloa ophiuroides), and St. Augustine Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) (Cech and Tudor).

Happy Butterfly Days!

Warmest wishes, Kim

Kingdom: Anilmalia (Animal)

  Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)

    Class: Insecta (Insects)

      Order: Lepidoptera (Butteflies, skippers, and moths)

        Superfamily: Papilionoidea (Butterflies, excluding skippers)

          Family: Nymphalidae (Brush-footed butterflies)

            Subfamily: Satryinae (Nymphs, Satyrs, and Arctic butterflies)

              Genus: Megisto

                Species: cymela

Chickity Check It!- The New Discover Gloucester Web Site is Live

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From Charles de Gaspe Beaubien-

Hi all,

I am thrilled to announce that version 1 of the new Discover Gloucester Web site is live at www.discovergloucester.com.   Check out the Mayor’s Welcome video Joey helped us film this AM.  Looks great.

Screen shot of half the page-

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I shot some video with our fantastic mayor last week for the welcome which you can see on the front page of the site and they use a bunch of content from GMG to help fill out the pages as well as content from Jay Albert’s Cape Ann Images

Brian Luster (A New Yorkah) and Son Of Marty Covers the Horribles Parade On A Movable Bridge

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Check Out Brian’s Blog Here

Chickity Check It!- Simply Cape Ann Blog

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Simply Cape Ann- Just What The Name Implies

Chickity Check It!  simplycapeann.blogspot.com

Photos submitted to the GMG Flickr Group by Simply Cape Ann

Vista from the Atlantic Path in Rockport.

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Sheets of slate among the rocks along the Atlantic Path in Rockport.

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Chickity Check Out Sister Felicia’s Grape and Ginger Ale Punch Video On the Gloucester Daily Times Website

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click on the picture to see the video

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Click Here For The Recipe On The Gloucester Daily Times Taste of The Times Online Website

Enter For Free Chance To Win A Gift Certificate Worth $100 from Nine Elm American Bistro in Danvers.

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Dish Giveaway: Gift Certificate to Nine Elm

The Girls At North shore Dish Have a Simple Contest For You To Enter For A Chance To Win $100 Gift Certificate

All You Have To Do Is To Leave A Comment On the North Shore Dish Blog As To What Your Favorite North Shore Hidden Gem Restaurant Is.

Here’s the Link

Market Restaurant At Lobster Cove Pics From David Cox

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Check Out The Market Restaurant Blog Run By Oliver Monday Here

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Good Morning Gloucester- Your Home For Saint Peter’s Fiesta Coverage!

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We’ve already got 5 Fiesta posts today alone and it’s only 1:38PM.

The Good Morning Gloucester Team is dedicated to bringing you THE BEST FIESTA COVERAGE ON THE PLANET!

This is the place to bookmark, this is the place for Fiesta updates.  Right here baby.

For strictly Fiesta Coverage click this link for all the GMG Saint Peter’s Fiesta Posts-

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/category/saint-peters-fiesta/

Coming later- Greasy pole Shrine Construction videos, Six Time Greasy Pole Champ Matza Interview, Seine Boat Coverage, novena Coverage, and much much more.

Where everywhere bringing you the Fiesta Love Baby!

Hopefully we can provide a sense of being there for our readers who can’t be home for Fiesta or those who can’t make it to every single event.

Click For Slide Show Of Fiesta’s Past

Joseph Flack Weiler Gloucester Portfolio At Topside Grille

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Gloucester Portfolio

Joseph Flack Weiler is now exhibiting his Gloucester Portfolio at the Topside Grill, 50 Rogers Street, Gloucester.

The black and white photographs are made from film negatives and printed with a 1970’s enlarger by J. F. Weiler. The images range in time from 1987 through today.

They depict the schooners Adventure, 1988,

Thomas E. Lannon, 1997 and Bluenose, 2006. Also included is a selection of seascapes from Bass Rocks.

Many of the images have been made from kayaks allowing an intimate water level view. Changes that have taken place on the Gloucester waterfront over the past twenty-four years are documented in the photographs. Some of the photographs can also be seen at WeilerPhotoGallery.com

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Photo Caption:

Dory time trial, 2000 photo by Joseph Flack Weiler

Andrew Spindler’s Gloucester House Featured In The New York Times Home and Garden Section

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New York Times Image-

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Click for the Photoshoot and Story

Heather Atwood Now Blogging On Her Food for Thought Blog

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Heather is blogging on what looks like a Gloucester Daily Times blog platform.  Heather is full of passion for food and writing and especially proud of telling the stories behind the food.

I’m looking forward to seeing more from her.

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From her blog-

Everyone has a story about food, whether it’s a grandmother’s recipe or an unforgettable meal from a Japanese stand on the way to the Tokyo airport. Ultimately, the recipe for Nisu bread or the bowl of soba are the vehicles for the larger tale, usually a story of warmth, joy, love, adventure, even loss.

Food is a language with which we talk about life. It marks what we were doing when we loved someone, when we were loved by someone, when we were happy, when we were trying to change the world, when we were on an adventure. The fact that one of the symptoms of extreme grief is to stop eating, makes certain there will be no taste around to remind us of that time. When life turns a bad corner, taste refuses to go with it, stubbornly remaining a signal only of life’s better times.

For years I wrote fiction, but also spent much of my time cooking or talking about cooking with friends and family. I finally saw that the stories were always at my table. Or they were at my friends’ tables, or the table of the stranger I would meet that day.

The “Food for Thought” blog will be a corner to collect those stories and the recipes that go with them. With a free-wheeling mix of literature, images, and just about anything revelatory about the powers of food – growing it, remembering it, preserving it, crafting it – “Food for Thought” welcomes all. In the words of Virginia Woolf, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

Here is an interview with Heather we did

Heather is also on twitter- http://www.twitter.com/heather_atwood

You can always find her blog in the GMG Blogroll to the right.

Chickity Check It! Lisa Bruce’s Sunshine Walks

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Lisa Bruce a local seamstress, knitter, nanny, housewife, mainer-at-heart sells beautiful

“knitting project bags, pouches, needle rolls, and more!”

She has a very reasonably priced ETSY store where you can find her vibrantly colored and designed creations like these-

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Click the picture above to check out her ETSY store

Lisa also has a blog which she infrequently updates but you may find interesting-

http://sunshinewalks.wordpress.com/

Chickity Check It! John Hintlian’s Surfing Set

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John Writes-

Warm enough to ditch the boots & gloves, allowing for the 1st water shots of the season. Nothing epic, but 80 degrees and little waves.

His blog is no nonsense surferific check it out here- Hye Tyde

Click The Pic For John’s Surfing Set Slide Show

Heather Atwood Gives Abby The GDT Food For Thought Treatment

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Heather Atwood Featured here in this video on GMG gives The 5th Joy blogger and former neighbor Abby Cahill O’Brien the Atwood treatment in Today’s GDT http://www.gloucestertimes.com/lifestyle/x1414114593/Sometimes-good-taste-is-laborious-and-costly-but-not-always#comment-52192261

Look at Abby all growns up!

Local Blogger You Should Know- Abigail Cahill O’Brien- The 5th joy

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Abby Cahill or how she now goes by Abigail Cahill O’Brien grew up in a bedroom less than 100 yards from mine. We all played tennis on her parent’s courts deep in God’s Country (East Gloucester if you didn’t already know). Her parents threw a fantastic tennis tournament in the summer in which the winners in each division would take home mini sterling silver salt and pepper shakers. I have a pair tucked away in a drawer somewhere from a mixed doubles win.

What is crazy is that I had not seen or been in contact with her or any of her brothers or sisters in about 30 years and just within the past year or so I’ve met up with Jason, Josh, Jonathan, and now through the magic of the intrawebs- Abby.

Apparently Abby is all grown up now and has matured into a lovely woman who has developed an exquisite sense of style. Her beautiful blog should be made into a magazine. It is filled with visual treats and recipes and all sorts of other goodness but the content and layout really is of professional caliber and her writing flows.

Chickity Check her Blog fifth joy by clicking this text

You can check out Abby’s blog which will now also be featured in the very prestigious GMG Blogroll to the right. She also does the twitter thing- 5thjoy

Chickity Check It! Glazed! Paint Your Own Pottery Studio

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After speaking with Roselle who bid for breakfast with me at The East Gloucester Elementary School Auction I found out about some very fun things going on at her 184 Washington St paint your own pottery studio.

She has ladies night where there is cheese and crackers as well as free massages, and many other events.  Check out the Glazed Facebook page for more info

Welcome To Gloucester Marty!

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Back on October 3 Marty luster came to Gloucester with his son Brian, a Brooklynite who runs the fantastic water blog A Movable Bridge

Brian came to Gloucester with his dad Marty and attended the International Dory seaon wrap up party and dory raffle determined to win the dory.

Marty fell so in love with Gloucester after just one visit he determined he had to move here.

He landed the day before yesterday and I’m sure he is deep into unpacking boxes and all that goes with a big move. But i wanted to welcome him.

welcome welcome welcome!

Here’s some video from the night marty arrived in Gloucester which he probably didn’t know at the time but ended up being a huge crossroad in his life.

Marty has his own site as well as son Brian-
Here’s his site: http://www.photonewsservice.com/

And here’s the link to his pictures from Gloucester from the trip that made him decide to move there: http://www.photonewsservice.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1310

The Bean Takes Photos at The George Anderson Gallery Rockport

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During our family day in Rockport last week the Bean and I took another Photo Safari. 

We started out at The George Anderson Gallery.  George Anderson has many contemporary paintings with lobstermen and local scenes.

The Bean Takes Photos at The George Anderson Gallery Rockport, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

From George’s Website-

George Anderson is a contemporary artist specializing in marine / nautical, abstract, mexican, rural and urban motifs. George resides in Rockport, MA, where he owns an oceanside gallery. He is well known for paintings that reflect marine or nautical subjects found along the New England coastline.

He is most recognized for his “Gloucester Waterfront” Series, in which George conveys the lives of the port’s hardworking fishermen with bright colors and abstract shapes. His most recent motif “City Streets” is based on experiences during his many visits to Manhattan. A series of large oils on canvas, “City Streets” uses mixed media techniques which combine images of the streets with the objects collected from them.

Check Out His Website- http://www.rockportartist.com/

The Two Palaverers Video Interview

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Interview with New England’s most well travelled adventurers- Rob and Laura Ciampa.

Newly added to the blogroll as well.  Rob and laura bring the best of New England to you!

Rob tell us the truth, you’re exaggerating just a little bit, aren’t you? 😉 

Check out the two Palaverers Here-

http://2palaver.com/