Jersey Shore Magazine

j e r s e y s h o r e • F A L L / H O L I D A Y 2 0 1 9 63 of combination packages to choose from online, you are sure to find the perfect gift. Just like our Retail Store, D.O. Gift Baskets are committed to freshness. At our 60,000 square foot retail mar- ket we specializes in fresh fruits and vegetables. We offer a wide array of baked goods all made on site in our scratch bakery. We're home to the finest meats and cheeses with unique deli, pre- pared foods, and grocery sections. Our seafood department receives fresh deliveries daily. D.O. offers an unmatched shopping experience with fresh coffees and teas from around the world and packaged to order, an ever growing organic department, unique gift baskets, curbside service, and catering. Our Cider Café offers outdoor seat- ing, juice bar, and our famous apple fritter shack. Share a slice of the Jersey Shore and visit Delicious Orchards today. JOE LEONE'S GASTRONOMIA 527 Washington Boulevard, Sea Girt (732) 681-1036 www.joeleones.com Please refer to our ad on page 60 and our listings below and on page 61. Joe Leone's Gastronomia is a scaled reflection of our flagship store, Joe Leone's Italian Specialties in Point Pleasant Beach. Joe Leone's Gastronomia is a satellite source for traditional Italian specialty items, homemade breads, handmade mozzarel- la, and restaurant quality prepared dishes—all produced fresh daily. Built for convenience, Joe Leone's Gastronomia offers a variety of choose and go sandwiches, salads, soups, sauces, dips, chees- es, and desserts for everything from the family meal to entertaining guests. Custom Gift Baskets, Handcrafted Gift Boxes, and Gift Cards are also available. Committed to quality, personalized cus- tomer service, and overall Excellence for over ten years, Joe Leone's Gastronomia has earned a com- parable reputation to our original location. Open seven days. We invite you to visit us in person or always online for an unforgettable experience! JOE LEONE'S ITALIAN SPECIALTIES 510 Route 35 South Point Pleasant Beach, (732) 701-0001 www.joeleones.com Please refer to our ad on page 60 and our listings above and on page 61. Proud to call Point Pleasant Beach home for over twenty years, experience the Premier Italian Specialty Destination at the Jersey Shore! Driven by a passion for culinary excellence and a commit- ment to quality service, our Point Pleasant Beach location is an award-winning Italian Specialty foods retailer, offering an expansive array of imported gourmet retail products, custom-built sandwiches, sauces, soups, salads, imported as well as domestic cheeses and ornate homewares. Produced fresh daily from scratch, our home- made breads, handmade fresh mozzarella, and restaurant quality prepared dishes represent the foundation of our proud reputation. Custom Gift Baskets, Handcrafted Gift Boxes, and Gift Cards are available for any occasion. Be our guest to experience our vision for excellence and witness our tradition of commitment to customer satis- faction and outstanding products. Challenge your senses, embrace the experience! Open seven days and always online at JoeLeones.com. u archs before they were forgotten by the literal sands of time. I photo- graphed them as I found them. Some just barely distinguishable as frag- ments of orange peeked from the sand. Others, incredibly untouched, as if just plucked from the sky. I couldn't help but surmise that some had sim- ply dropped from flight, exhausted from battling fierce coastal winds. Yet instead of finding food and respite, they found a cruel ecosystem devoid of shelter for a fragile winged insect. I began to wonder if it would be envi- ronmentally sound to add milkweed to the dune grasses, which are so essen- tial in erosion prevention. (Months later, I got my answer. The town of Belmar did just this—implementing milkweed and other pollen-rich plants at its Fourth Avenue 'dune garden!') Metamorphosis She hid caterpillars in rusted cans, put the open end in a hole of the wall. No escape. Yet they drew breath… What did she know of mysteries? Days later, kneeling before the wall, she found no caterpillars in the untouched can. Now she searches the world for butterflies. —Frank Finale The Jar I loved your bold orange black & white since childhood when I stalked you. You dazzled my eyes. I tried to capture you, and did; put you in a jelly jar with holes in its tin top, showed you to my mom. She said, a wry smile on her butterfly beautiful face, You should set them free. They'll die in that jar. I knew so little then loved what she knew. I was eight when she died. I remember those monarchs I set free into a blue summer. The empty jar I held, on our green lawn. —Frank Finale HOME PORT THE BEACHSCAPE, continued from page 66 Frank Finale is the author of the coffee table books "To The Shore Once More, Volumes I - III" and "A Gull's Story, Parts 1 - 3." He is also coeditor of the anthologies "Under A Gull's Wing" and "The Poets of New Jersey." Please refer to pages 7 - 9, as well as www.jerseyshore- books.com for more information about his books and appearances. Jill Lang Before long, I had a collection of photographs depicting their felled splendor, a testament to the perils of their miraculous annual journey. It was so incredibly sad, yet a perverse honor to be able to touch and exam- ine them so closely. I can only hope to never encounter such a phenome- non again. Christine Menapace is a freelance writer and long time contributor to this magazine. She lives in Keyport. Her accompanying article on monarchs, "Flight or Plight?," begins on page 42.

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