Janet L. Adams-Moreland and David A. Moreland purchased 70 Goah Way for $540,000 on May 16.

Richard Cowen purchased 5 Masonic Avenue for $274,962.27 on May 17.

Elizabeth A. Wilson purchased Forest Hill avenue, Lot 7 for $165,000 on May 16.

Chris Hathaway and Michael Sellitti Jr. stood at the ready on the slab at Up-Island Automotive this week, waiting for the next customer to pull in. The slab is home base for the gas attendants at the West Tisbury station, bouncing off the center aisle from pump to pump attending to customers.

Abigail Dillon and Ryan Dillon purchased 35 Meshaket Way for $440,000 on May 15.

Clifford Estrella and Diane Estrella purchased 40 Woodhaven Drive for $1,120,000 on May 17.

It is the end of the day and the sun hangs low and red over Sengekontacket Pond. The waters of Nantucket Sound are relatively flat due to a southerly shift in the wind earlier in the afternoon, but a few small waves break on the shoreline. Schools of bluefish surface about a quarter mile offshore. Terns follow the schools as they erratically move along.

Why stop to smell the roses when you can get a lungful of lilacs?

The monitoring of Vineyard fish hawks, or ospreys, is an ongoing project. Although osprey comings and goings have been recorded since 1913 on-Island, the study of the osprey population did not start until the 1970s by Gus Ben David. Osprey nests had been documented in Lambert’s Cove, Chappaquiddick and on the Takemmy Trail (the road between West Tisbury and Edgartown) in the 1950s. Then came the 1960s and the uncontrolled use of the pesticide DDT. The Vineyard’s osprey population dropped to two or three pair.

I have several young women who work for me at various job sites. Several have traveled around working at organic farms here and abroad. As we were settling down to enjoy our lunch one day last week, Angela George commented, “I wish I could weed with my mind.” Don’t we all wish? There must be a way.