Donnie Benefit and Greg Bettencourt lead dredging efforts in Edgartown Great Pond.
Donnie Benefit and Greg Bettencourt lead dredging efforts in Edgartown Great Pond.
Bands of hardy volunteers of all ages hit the beaches around the Island Saturday for the 31st annual Earth Day beach day cleanup. It marked the third decade for the event, sponsored by the Vineyard Conservation Society.
It was a blizzard of smiles and armfuls of Dilly Bars at the Dairy Queen's opening day on Friday.
Two new residents arrived at Island Alpaca in Oak Bluffs earlier this month. The additions resemble the 31 alpacas on the farm but are taller, with longer snouts and pointier ears, defining them as llamas and the new protectors of the herd.
The spring migration is in full force in April as summer visitors come north while winter residents depart. Osprey, greater yellowlegs, piping plovers and double-crested cormorants arrive with southerly winds.
The buds are fat on roadside bushes, and the birds proclaim the season in their full morning chorus.
Volunteers gathered at Lobsterville Beach Saturday morning to take part in dune restoration efforts led by the Natural Resources Group of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).
April begins on a whim, celebrating the art of foolishness and ends, at least here on the Island, with a clarity of purpose.
Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury hold their annual town meetings on the Vineyard's own Super Tuesday.
Now the pace of Island life will quicken in the rush toward summer. The days and weeks ahead will bring seasonal fits and starts, a setback or two and then an avalanche of green and the bright blooms of daffodils, lilacs and wild apple. The turn of the season is at hand.
Lots of smiles, fish, and hot dogs, and family fun at the annual Kids Trout Tournament.
Putting aside the angry disruptions of the odd northeaster or two, this spring so far has been a soft and enticing prelude to summer.
The Flying Horses carousel opened its 148th season on Saturday, and hundreds of kids and parents flocked to the carousel to wait in line, choose a horse, and reach for the coveted brass ring that allows for an extra ride free of charge.
At the Tisbury School service members from Coast Guard Station Menemsha join students and staff every Thursday for half the day.
Islanders can take solace from the fact that this dance of one step forward, two back, is the norm and not the exception where our season of spring is concerned.
It is March and, as expected, the pace of the northward migration has increased. Southwesterly winds brought a variety of birds northward. Can spring and summer be far behind?