Ocean Eversley, 53-year-old Vineyard Haven athletics ace — she is national and New England champion in the 60, 200 and 400-meter races and long jump — is training hard for the Penn Relays that will be held on April 28 and 29. Part of the Mass Velocity track club, she’s aiming to break the masters women’s national record in the 4-by-100 and 4-by-400 meter relay in front of up to 60,000 thousand fans.

Ms. Eversley is being coached by the eight-time open 800-meter national champion and Olympian Khadevis Robinson.

Solar Sanctuary

Like magic, they appear. Hocus crocus!

One doesn’t need a wand to make crocuses. Spring is to thank for the coming of the crocus, though there is also a man who can take some credit for their creation. He couldn’t make longer and warmer days, but he could make those new little cup-shaped flowers.

Every bit of garden advice I give is a result of painful experience. I have learned everything the hard way.

Last week I asked people who had barn owls to let me know if they have pairs around their property. I received this marvelous description from Rebecca Gilbert of the Native Earth Teaching Farm on North Road:

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

The Island’s favorite fishing ponds were stocked last week with rainbow, brown and tiger trout. The annual pilgrimage of bringing fresh fish over from the Cape took place on Thursday, March 24. They were delivered in an unusual Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife truck.

Uncle Seth’s, Old Mill, and Duarte’s Pond in West Tisbury received the bulk of the fish. The Head of the Lagoon, which is shared by the towns of Oak Bluffs and Tisbury got the rest.

Welcome Paul Mohair

The Edgartown Council on Aging is happy to welcome Paul Mohair as its new administrator. He will have the overall responsibility for the organization. Mr. Mohair began working on March 14, and is now meeting the community and becoming familiar with the position.

After two weeks of tryouts and preseason practices, the spring sports season is underway at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Boys’ lacrosse, track, and the boys’ and girls’ tennis teams all had their first games and matches this week (scores were unavailable at press time), with baseball, softball, girls’ lacrosse and sailing kicking off over the weekend and into April.

I am a person of words, speaking them, writing them, reading them, I love them anyway I can get them. Especially writing. There is nothing in the world like looking down at a piece of paper and knowing that those words were meant to be there, exactly how you wanted them to be. There have been few times in my life I have found myself without words, they have been my constant friend over the years, getting me into as much trouble as they’ve gotten me out of — and yet every time I sit down to write about Martha’s Vineyard they simply disappear.

Dear Ana,