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Dead Cardinal - June 2024 This dead cardinal was lying in the sand at the side of the road. It would appear that he was hit by a car. I originally took the picture only to show to Kathy, but the composition of the image is striking. The pattern of the sand & asphalt, the mix of grays, browns and greens with what was once a magnificent red bird in the center. I guess even in death a cardinal can be a beautiful bird. MWM

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I WAS BORN IN PORT ST JOE AND ILL DIE FOR PORT ST JOE! 1988 LETS GET IT

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Seashell litter on St Joe Beach this morning. Morning beach walks are good for the soul.

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W.S. Merwin with Bill Moyers

BILL MOYERS: You titled this new book, the one that just one the Pulitzer Prize, "In The Shadow of Sirius". Now, Sirius is the dog star. The most luminous star in the sky. Twenty-five times more luminous than the sun. And yet, you write about it's shadow. Something that no one has never seen. Something that's invisible to us. Help me to understand that. 

W.S. MERWIN: That's the point. The shadow of Sirius is pure metaphor, pure imagination. But we live in it all the time. 

BILL MOYERS: How so? 

W.S. MERWIN: We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of-- as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that — it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery. That's always with us, too. And it gives the depth and dimension to the rest of it.

BILL MOYERS: But this is the first poem in the book. Would you read this for us? 

W.S. MERWIN: That must be "The Nomad Flute." 

You that sang to me once sing to me now Let me hear your long lifted note survive with me the star is fading I can think farther than that but I forget do you hear me do you still hear me does your air remember you o breath of morning night song morning song I have with me all that I do not know I have lost none of it

but I know better now than to ask you where you learned that music where any of it came from once there were lions in China I will listen until the flute stops and the light is old again

BILL MOYERS: "I have with me all that I do not know. I have lost none of it." What — how do you carry with you what you do not know? 

W.S. MERWIN: We always do that. I think that poetry and the most valuable things in our lives, and in fact the next sentence, your next question to me, Bill, come out of what we don't know. They don't come out of what we do know. They come out of what we do know, but what we do know doesn't make them. The real source of them is beyond that. It's something we don't know. They arise by themselves. And that's a process that we never understand.

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America's Great Loop is coming to an end

In Pensacola, Ed and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary! America’s Great Loop is coming to an end and it has been no “bed of roses.” It is work. Fun work, leaving one grounded. Ed and I know this has been the trip of a lifetime! Tomorrow a window of “good” weather has opened and Finito will make a 24 hour trip across the Gulf of Mexico/America from Port St. Joe to Tarpon Springs. Seas…

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American Auto Trail-Florida's Forgotten Coast (St. George Island to Port St Joe FL)

merican Auto Trail-Florida's Forgotten Coast (St. George Island to Port St Joe FL) https://youtu.be/Swv81ph-Q24 This American auto trail explores the historical coast of Florida around the mouth of the Apalachicola River, starting off on St George Island.

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ominous skies- Port St Joe. 2022

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The Ice Cream Parlor, Fish Fries, Lent, and Smelt—or my French Canadian Immigrant Family’s relationship with Fish. 🤪

Joseph “Joe” Thibodeau’s confectionary store. We aren’t sure who is in the picture with him but it could be my great-grandma Ida and one of his brothers.

Joseph “Joe” Thibodeau’s confectionary store, 1910 in Ashland, Wisconsin. His little brother, William and little sister, Gertie are behind the counter.

When his daughter Lorraine (my granny) and her sister Therese were growing up in the apartment above the shop, great-grandpa changed his business from a candy store to an ice cream parlor.

But on Friday nights? They operated a massive fish fry. Until 1966 the Catholic Church required its congregation to abstain from meat on all Fridays, not just during Lent. And great-grandpa’s neighbors, like himself, were French-Canadian Roman Catholics. Joseph was born in 1883 in St. Maurice, Quebec. The family immigrated when he was two.

Wisconsin to this day is known for their fish fries—nowadays especially during Lent. Easy access to fish and a large population of Roman Catholic immigrants including Germans, Poles, and Québécois started it and the yummy food kept it going.

The time period my granny recounted to me was during the Great Depression and great-grandpa Joe was trying to figure out ways to make an extra buck.

Ashland is a port on Lake Superior, near the head of Chequamegon Bay—fish was plentiful and affordable. “A typical Wisconsin fish fry consists of beer batter fried cod, perch, bluegill, walleye, smelt*, or in areas along the Mississippi River, catfish. The meal usually comes with tartar sauce, French fries or German-style potato pancakes, coleslaw, and rye bread. The number of lakes in the state means that eating fish became a popular alternative.” Source

* Smelt are sometimes called "salvation fish" or "cucumber fish" because they are the first fish to return to streams in the spring after winter (smelt runs), and they smell like cucumber.

Some smelt species are common in the North American Great Lakes. Some species of smelts are among the few fish that sportsmen have been allowed to net, using hand-held dip nets, either along the coastline or in streams. Some sportsmen also ice fish for smelt. They are often fried and eaten whole (bones and all as Gran and mom always gleefully told us when recounting smelt dipping and the massive fish fry that ensued in the Marlow household of 14 hungry souls).

Wikipedia tells it pretty much the same as Gran and Mom:

In the Canadian provinces and U.S. states around the Great Lakes, "smelt dipping" is a common group sport in the early spring and when stream waters reach around 4 °C (39 °F). Fish are spotted using a flashlight or headlamp and scooped out of the water using a dip net made of nylon or metal mesh. The smelt are cleaned by removing the head and the entrails. Fins, scales, and bones of all but the largest of smelts are cooked without removal.

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Gran and mom said the family pretty much formed an assembly line catching, gutting and cooking the little fishies that they had netted in Lake Michigan and the tributary streams (Grandpa met Granny when he was working on the boats on the Lakes, but eventually they moved south to Mishicot near his family’s farm in Stiles).

Of course, mom’s family didn’t do it for sport but from need. Feeding a family of 14 on a school janitor’s salary was no joke!

Mom out at the lake

Grandpa John Marlow getting his feet wet after mass, I’m guessing!

Gramps and Granny at the lake.

Great Grandpa John again with my Uncle John and Aunts Vicki and Mary.

Edited to include the new picture of the storefront that I found an hour or two after writing this post.

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Pelican Landing - June 2024 Over the years I have taken a lot of pictures of pelicans, but this is the first time that I have captured one landing on the water. In the first image he is just above the water and in the second image he has landed but had not yet brought in his wings. MWM

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🌈 Queer Books Out December 2023 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose 🧡 Heartstopper #5 by Alice Oseman 💛 This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede 💚 All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows 💙 Vampires of Eden: Book One by Karla Nikole 💜 Not My Type by Joe Satoria ❤️ Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck 🧡 Eternal Embrace by Luna Lawson 💛 A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford 💙 Tomb of Heart and Shadow by Cara N. Delaney 💜 Through the Embers Volume 2 by Adriana Sargent 🌈 Lucero by Maya Motayne

❤️ The Poison Paradox by Hadley Field & Felix Green 🧡 Second Chances in New Port Stephen: A Novel by TJ Alexander 💛 Matrimonial Merriment by Nicky James 💚 Under the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Ramsden 💙 Every Beat of Her Heart by KC Richardson 💜 The Memories of Marlie Rose by Morgan Lee Miller ❤️ Playing with Matches by Georgia Beers 🧡 Always Only You by Chloe Liese 💛 Fire in the Sky by Radclyffe and Julie Cannon 💙 Nuclear Sunrise by Jo Carthage 💜 The Naked Dancer by Emme C. Taylor 🌈 Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann

❤️ Destiny’s Women by Morgan Elliott 🧡 Framed by Kate Merrill 💛 The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe 💚 Catered All the Way by Annabeth Albert 💙 A Cynic’s Christmas Conundrum by L.M. Bennett 💜 Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn ❤️ One Swipe Away by Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue 🧡 The Gentlemen’s Club by A.V. Shener 💛 A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold 💙 Secrets of the Soul by Holly Oliver 💜 Like They Do in the Movies by Nan Campbell 🌈 Limelight by Gun Brooke

❤️ Heart First by S.B. Barnes 🧡 Grave Consequences by Sandra Barret 💛 Haunted by Myth by Barbara Ann Wright 💚 Invisible by Anna Larner 💙 The Murders at Sugar Mill Farm by Ronica Black 💜 Coasting and Crashing by Ana Hartnett ❤️ Fairest by K.S. Trenten 🧡 A City of Abundant Opportunity by Howard Leonard 💛 The Dark Side of MIdnight by Erin Wade 💙 Mending Bones by Merlina Garance 💜 Transform by Connal Braginsky & Sean Ian O’Meidhir 🌈 The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

❤️ TruLove by Nicole Pyland 🧡 Structural Support by Sloan Spencer 💛 Whiskey War by Stacy Lynn Miller 💚 Overkill by Lou Wilham 💙 Heart of Outcasts by Nicole Silver 💜 In the Shadow of Victory by J. E. Leak ❤️ Just Like Her by Fiona Zedde 🧡 Gingerbread: Claus For Christmas by Miski Harris 💛 Lies are Forever by C. Jean Downer 💙 The Boys in the Club by M.T. Pope 💜 Lasting Light (Metal & Magic) by Michelle Frost 🌈 Tell No Tales by Edie Montreux

❤️ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman 🧡 Even Though We're Adults Vol. 7 by Takako Shimura 💛 The Accidental Bite by Michelle St. Wolf 💚 Mated to the Demons by Taylor Schafer 💙 Someday Away by Sara Elisabeth 💜 Gatherdawn Luminia Duet Volume 1 by Lee Colgin ❤️ Curse of Dawn by Richard Amos 🧡 Healing the Twin by Nora Phoenix 💛 Ride Me by KD Ellis 💙 How to Bang a Vampire by Joe Satoria 💜 Cthulhu for Christmas by Meghan Maslow 🌈 Prestige by Toni Reeb

❤️ Don't Look Down by Jessica Ann 🧡 Winter and the Wolves by Chris Storm and Kinkaid Knight 💛 Hat Trick by Ajay Daniel 💚 Starborn Husbands: Return to the Pleiades by S. Legend 💙 Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy 💜 Practice for Toby by Amy Bellows ❤️ The Siren's Song by Crista Crown 🧡 Hers to Hunt K.J. Devoir

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How Trump’s tariffs could affect CA wine

Farmworkers work at the Heringer Estates Family Vineyards and Winery in Clarksburg on March 24, 2020. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo

As California moves to sue President Donald Trump’s administration over tariffs, Californians working in the state’s wine, agricultural and port industries must navigate a murky economic outlook that could upend their livelihoods, writes CalMatters’ Levi Sumagaysay.

Igor Ivanov owns the Vinous Reverie wine shop in Walnut Creek. Because it sells mostly wines from Europe — where Trump has threatened 200% tariffs — Ivanov said he may need to make some changes, including stocking up on California wines or closing his shop altogether.

Ivanov: “I’d have to think about whether it’s worthwhile staying in business.”

At stake: The U.S. wine industry makes about $86 billion in annual sales, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, and California exported $1.3 billion worth of wine in 2022.

But tariffs don’t just affect wine sellers. Winemakers could face higher costs on bottles, since glass is mostly imported from China, as well as labels, corks, wooden stakes for vines and more. 

California is also a major exporter of wine, making up 95% of the country’s U.S. exports, said a spokesperson for the Wine Institute. More than a third of the exports go to Canada — a country in which some of its political leaders have publicly criticized Trump’s tariffs and warned against traveling to the U.S. 

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, a Democrat whose district includes Napa’s Wine Country, said some of his constituents have reported that their Canadian business partners have canceled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of orders. Potential sales to Mexico or the European Union are also on hold. One winery in St. Helena told Thompson’s staff that due to tariffs Trump imposed during his first term, it lost 90% of its business with China.

But Natalie Collins, president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers, said there could be one benefit: Tariffs on competing wines, including those from Europe, could help local California wineries.

That includes Bruce Lundquist, co-founder of the California sparkling wine producer Rack & Riddle, who agreed with Collins.

Lundquist: “I wish Americans would look at wines grown in their backyard.”

For more on how Trump’s tariffs could impact other industries, read Levi’s story.

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An inside look at mental health court

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Owen Kaye in his office at the Hollywood Courthouse in Los Angeles on March 12, 2025. Photo by Jules Hotz for CalMatters

“I really didn’t know what to expect.”

That’s how Judge Ronald Owen Kaye described his reaction to CalMatters’ Joe Garcia after Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed him to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2020.

Kaye presides over a mental health court, a key component of the state’s effort to implement diversion services amid a growing number of criminal defendants struggling with mental health issues. These courts receive alleged offenders who are incompetent, or at risk of being found incompetent, to stand trial. Through partnerships with county health services, the courts can also help connect individuals with treatment and housing.

Before becoming a judge, Kaye was a former legal aid attorney, a federal public defender and a civil rights attorney. He’s had a history of filing multiple lawsuits against the county related to failures for providing proper mental health care.

Kaye frequently interacts with defendants dealing with chronic homelessness, mental illness and substance abuse, and says he aims to “make people feel comfortable in court and make them feel like they matter.”

Kaye: “I’m always balancing these issues of liberty — people’s freedom; and treatment — getting them quality of care; and making sure the community is safe. That’s essentially what I do in virtually every aspect of my job.”

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CA Dems split on housing

A VTA Light Rail train passes an apartment complex in San Jose on May 10, 2019. Photo by Dai Sugano, Bay Area News Group

At the beginning of the legislative session, Democratic legislative leaders said they intended to push colleagues to focus on the state’s cost-of-living issues. But the narrow passing of a pro-housing bill, during a tense Senate committee hearing Tuesday, underscores a rift among Democrats who want to quickly build housing and other infrastructure projects, and progressives concerned with affordability and labor agreements.

As CalMatters’ Jeanne Kuang explains, Senate Bill 79 would require cities to allow taller and denser housing construction near public transit stations. Sen. Aisha Wahab, a Fremont Democrat and chairperson of the Senate Housing Committee, opposed the bill saying that the measure didn’t guarantee that projects would be built with union labor, nor require new units to be affordable for low-income residents.

Wahab, in an interview with CalMatters: “Because there is such a need right now, developers are seizing the moment and experimenting with options that are truly a sweetheart deal for them.”

Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, the author of the bill and a vocal advocate for housing production, pushed back against Wahab, arguing that she only provided blanket opposition to the bill instead of offering possible amendments.

Wiener, at Tuesday’s hearing: “There’s apparently not a single thing in the bill you like.”

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And lastly: Angry Canadians

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Tourism from Canada — California’s second-largest international market — is falling amid backlash to Trump’s policies and rhetoric. CalMatters’ Levi Sumagaysay and video strategy director Robert Meeks have a video segment on how Canadian tourism affects California's economy as part of our partnership with PBS SoCal. Watch it here.

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665nm infrared shot of the lighthouse in Port St Joe, Florida

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mod retro tell me a murder case!!

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Tara Leigh Calico is an American woman who disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico, on September 20, 1988. She is widely believed to have been kidnapped. In July 1989, a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young woman and boy, gagged and seemingly bound, was televised to the public after it was found in a convenience store parking lot in Port St. Joe, Florida. Family friends thought the woman resembled Calico and contacted her mother, who then met with investigators and examined the Polaroid. She believed it was her daughter after taking "time, growth and lack of makeup" into consideration, and noted that a scar on the woman's leg was identical to one that Calico had. Scotland Yard analyzed the photo and concluded that the woman was Calico, but a second analysis by the Los Alamos National Laboratory disagreed. An FBI analysis of the photo was inconclusive.

This is more of a disappearance case but i tried!

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“Golden Brown

Collaborative mural painting with Javier Arreguin at Port st. Joe Florida.