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EASTERN POINT LIGHTHOUSE POWER OUTAGE UPDATE
The downed trees were cleared from the road and driveways although it looks as though it may be a few more days before power is restored and cars are allowed to park at the Lighthouse lot.
The GREAT news is that the four trees that the Monarchs consistently roost in overnight, year after year after year, were spared, and came through with flying colors!
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ghs cheerleaders at the wilmington game
END OF THE RAINBOW OVER SAINT ANN CHURCH AND MARITIME GLOUCEST
Morning after the storm rainbow over Saint Ann Chucrh, City Hall, and Maritime Gloucester.
The opposite end of Pat’s rainbow photo.
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GHS football vs wilmington
GHS looses tough game to Wilmington.
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GOOD AFTERNOON MR. RED-TAILED HAWK
Fancy meeting you today!
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Cute youngster at play at the boulevard
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GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE BACKSHORE!
With blustering wind and pending rain clouds, this morning’s sunrise from the Backshore was full of surprises.
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GHS Cheerleaders at the medford game
GHS cheerleaders doing their cheering and exhibiting at last Friday’s game. I wonder how they did at their meets over the week end??
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GHS football vs medford
GHS boys overpowers Medford 40-16 and now wait for playoff match up.
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Gloucester cyclecross
Last week-end’s international event at Stage Fort Page …..just a few photos.
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Around Town #5
A few photos from my wanderings.
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Generous Gardeners Restructuring the gardens at the boulevard
Once again the Generous Gardeners have worked hard and completed the work to have the tulip festival come back to us next spring. It took a lot of hours of work to complete this project….a big thank you to all who did this !!
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GHS football players & Cheerleaders
A few photos from last game of GHS Football Players & Cheerleaders.
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David’s lucky catches
David got lucky making two catches within five minutes ….he gave the balls to two of the cutest kids that happened to be sitting near us. This was at Monday’s game. Great reaction by all the fans that saw what had happened.
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GHS fOOTBALL VS sAUGUS
GHS Boys edge out a victory in hard fought game with Saugus. The final one point victory in question till final whistle.
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reminder: Special fall art shows today
Special Fall art shows today, Monday, and throughout October
Annisquam Arts & Craft Show today only Oct 8
Cape Ann Artisans trail today and Monday
Peabody Essex Museum Ocean Liners today and Monday CLOSING OCT 9TH
American Craft Week Oct 6-15 goodlinens event, Local Colors, Pauline’s gifts, DIVa, and more
Cyclocross is Oct 14 & 15 2017
Cape Ann Cinema & Stage Doctobrefest Documentary Film Festival Oct 13-19
Cape Ann Cinema & Stage Scary Movies all October Why should Salem have all the fun?
Cape Ann Cinema & Stage with UU Church SILENT horror movies- Hunchback of Notre DameOct 17, 7:30PM featuring world famous pipe organ maestro Peter Krasinski
FANTASTIC Rockbound at Cape Ann Museum CLOSING oct 29
Photos: 2017 Annisquam Arts & Crafts Fair
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Massive Wave of Painted Lady Butterflies Lights up Denver Weather Radar
Thank you to Meg and Donna Stoman for sharing this fantastic story of a 70 mile wide “butterfly cloud!”
DENVER STAR
DENVER—A lacy, cloudlike pattern drifting across a Denver-area radar screen turned out to be a 110-kilometre-wide wave of butterflies, forecasters say.
Paul Schlatter of the National Weather Service said he first thought flocks of birds were making the pattern he saw on the radar Tuesday, but the cloud was headed northwest with the wind, and migrating birds would be southbound in October.
He asked birdwatchers on social media what it might be, and by Wednesday had his answer: People reported seeing a loosely spaced net of painted lady butterflies drifting with the wind across the area.
Schlatter said the colours on the radar image are a result of the butterflies’ shape and direction, not their own colours.
Midwestern radar stations occasionally pick up butterflies, but Schlatter believes it’s a first for Denver.
An unusually large number of painted ladies, which are sometimes mistaken for monarch butterflies, has descended on Colorado’s Front Range in recent weeks, feeding on flowers and sometimes flying together in what seem like clouds.
Sarah Garrett, a lepidopterist at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado, said people from as far away as the Dakotas have called to report seeing the butterflies, whose population typically surges with plentiful flowers.
Research on the painted ladies in North America is limited, but scientists believe they migrate to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico in the fall. In Europe, studies using radio tracking have shown they migrate south from Europe to Africa in the fall and return in the spring. Studies also show that monarch butterflies often use wind to their advantage and glide on currents for periods of time, Garrett said.
An irruption of Painted Ladies is occurring in the northeast and throughout the U.S. Painted Ladies drinking nectar at Seaside Goldenrod.
Compare the larger Monarch (top) to the smaller and richly patterned Painted Lady.
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A SPECTACULAR PAINTED LADY BUTTERFLY IRRUPTION HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
The sheer number of Painted Ladies migrating are stealing some of the Monarchs thunder!
Many readers have written inquiring about the beautiful butterflies with wings in a tapestry of brilliant orange, brown, black, cream, and blue. Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) are often confused with Monarch butterflies, especially during the late summer. Both are currently migrating and you will often see the two species drinking nectar side-by-side.
As do Monarchs, Painted Ladies depart from Mexico to begin their northward migration in springtime. Both Monarchs and Painted Ladies belong to the brush-foot family (Nymphalidae) and can only survive in warm climates.
Monarch Butterfly, top, and Painted Lady bottom. Note that the Painted Lady is about half the size of the Monarch
Sightings from the midwest recorded large numbers early in the season, and 2017 has proven to be an outstanding year for this most successful of butterflies. The Painted Lady is also nicknamed the “Cosmopolitan” butterfly because it is the most widespread butterfly in the world.
Painted Lady drinking nectar from the Seaside Goldenrod at the Gloucester HarborWalk
One reason we may possibly be experiencing a Painted Lady irruption in North America is because a rainy spring in the south was followed by a fabulous bloom of dessert annuals that provided abundant food plants for the caterpillars. Unlike Monarch butterflies, which will only deposit their eggs on members of the milkweed family (Asclepias), Painted Lady caterpillars eat a wide range of plants. More than 300 host plants have been noted; favorites include thistles, yarrow, Pearly Everlasting, Common Sunflower (Asteraceae), Hollyhock and many mallows (Malvaceae), various legumes (Fabaceae) along with members of Boraginaceae, Plantaginaceae, and Urticaceae.
Common Buckeye and Painted Lady Nectaring at the Seaside Goldenrod at the Gloucester HarborWalk
Much, much more remains to be discovered about the beautiful Painted Lady, its habits and how their behavior and seasonal distribution varies by geographic location.
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Painted Lady Drinking Nectar from the Purple-stemmed Aster
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GHS cheerleaders at GHS-Lynn classical game
GHS Cheering squad showing their skills at the game.
Good Morning Gloucester 