January Days
The whole Island, it seems, has got a case of the winter blahs. Of course the weather hasn’t helped — gray, rainy, icy, bitter cold, snowy — pull up the covers and make another pot of tea. Many down-Island storefronts are shuttered, recalling the year when Jaws II was filmed on the Island and Hollywood experts transformed Edgartown in July into a winter streetscape, complete with mud-splattered shops and great billows of manufactured rain and fog.
It’s like that for real now.
Except there are bright spots. A playful otter has been popping up in the Mill Pond in West Tisbury over the last two weeks, eluding newspaper photographers with the skill of a circus performer. At the Agricultural Hall a lone golfer has been out in the field practicing his long game. And now conditions favor skating and sledding again.
All good cures for cabin fever.
This article appears in January 16, 2009.