The morning sky is loaded with planets. For those who rise well before the sun, say 4 a.m., there is a show of planets hovering in the southeastern sky. Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter are in a tight nest with the thin crescent moon. The time to look is about a half-hour before sunrise, although you will need a cloudless eastern horizon to see them all.

JANE N. SLATER

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Honor Roll Addendum

The following correction and additions to the Tisbury School honor roll were sent to the Gazette this week.

Lachlan Cormie received high honors for the third quarter; he had been listed as receiving honors.

Seventh grade honors also went to Megan Piche, Michaela Piche and Max Santos.

Please Adopt Us

All the staff and volunteers at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard wish everyone a belated Happy Easter. We appreciate so much all the contributions — including money, food, blankets, toys and cleaning supplies — that people have made throughout the year. The shelter could not survive without your generosity.

Welcome Clovis

Noni and Jed Smith of Aquinnah announce the birth of a baby boy, Clovis Hugo Smith, on April 22 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Clovis weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce at birth.

Welcome, Ayla

Samantha Look and Kristian Strom of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Ayla Carolyn Look Strom, born on April 2, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Ayla weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces at birth.

For a couple of the coldest months> each year, for more than 30 years, Ward Just and his wife, Sarah Catchpole, have escaped to Paris They need some city time and anyway, their beautiful West Tisbury home is not so well insulated. And Paris fires the imagination.

In his small office with wide floorboards and rippled glass windows, Edward Hoagland sat in front of his bookshelf at his 18th century Edgartown home earlier this week. Behind him on his desk was a 1968 Olympia typewriter, the ink still wet from the essay he had been working on earlier that morning. Old New Yorker magazine covers with circus scenes on them decorated the walls, a few African masks hung above the windows and classical music played in the background.

Poet’s Corner at Library

Cape Cod poets Elizabeth Bradfield and Nancy K. Pearson join Island poet Lisa Vunk in a reading on Sunday, May 1 at 4 p.m. at the West Tisbury Library.

Elizabeth Bradfield’s Approaching Ice (Persea Books 2010), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her book Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books 2008) was winner of the Audre Lorde Prize and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she has an MFA from the University of Alaska and works as a naturalist.

Fashionable Art of Flowers

Featherstone Center for the Arts will host its second annual Garden Tea Party and Fashion Show on Saturday, May 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. The tea party will feature tea, sandwiches and cake. A Peggy Zablotny botanical collage will be the raffle prize, while other prizes will be awarded for special hats. Minor Knight will be fashion moderator, while Traeger di Pietro, Denys and Marilyn Wortman, Anne Gallagher and Shelley Christiansen will walk the runway under the tent at Featherstone’s campus on Barnes Road in Oak Bluffs.