Squibnocket splash. Tim Johnson

Sunday, February 12, 2023

We are about midway between winter solstice and vernal equinox, but the weather feels more like early spring than midwinter. This week some of the days were almost balmy. The sun rises now at about twenty minutes before seven, and sets near ten minutes after five. That's about fifty minutes more light at end of day than when winter began. Surely it's fair to feel the pull of spring, even though we haven't really had winter.

It's still the quiet time of the Vineyard year, the few months we savor before the summer to come. But in the mild, lengthening days, it's not so quiet as once it was.

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