Now the year moves on and there is no lovelier time on the Vineyard than that moment of seasonal change from summer to autumn.

The story of the changing seasonal guard is told not in the skies but in the lands and the sea around us. The gathering of autumn turns thoughts ahead to the golden weeks of late September and October, to noble days and cool nights, to high ocean skies and flecks of glitter in Island waters. This is a season when the clarity of light pushes the horizon back to infinity.

Fall arrives officially on the Island on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.