Jamie Kageleiry

1 week ago | bluedotliving.com | Jamie Kageleiry

Pollination. It’s good for us, of course — 35% of the world’s food crops depend on pollinators having healthy ecosystems. In this Green Guide, we have several stories that seek to do just that — provide the best possible conditions for pollinators to do their work. Healthy soil, restored bogs, parks and preserves with unsegmented pollinator pathways, advice on how to install outdoor lighting to keep bugs and birds happy.

1 month ago | bluedotliving.com | Jamie Kageleiry

Can you hear it? Two notes, E and F, played by a solo cello. Dun. Dun Dun. Dun Dun. Dundun. Dundun. Dundun. Dundun dundun. Did you get a tingle down your spine just then? Most of us have felt varying degrees of terror (or thrills) at those sounds for the last 50 years. Jaws became what many film historians have called the first big summer blockbuster movie, playing to nonstop crowds at the Strand Theater in Oak Bluffs, and theaters across America in the summer of 1975.

Dec 13, 2023 | bluedotliving.com | Jamie Kageleiry

Hello readers, When we at Bluedot are planning our print magazine issues, we typically start with a story, then assign pictures or illustrations based on that. But for the Fall/Winter 2023-2023 issue — our quiet season issue — we started first with the photographs first in all three of our feature stories. Sheny Leon, one of our favorite photographers, told me he’d been taking photographs of Micah Thanhauser’s new kiln at Merry Farm Pottery studio in West Tisbury.