Time Machine Terms
March 24, 2011
Edgartown
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
(kathleencase@comcast.net)
Ah, the sounds of spring are around. The pinkletinks were chirping at Jan and Floyd Norton’s when I went up there. The sound of red-winged blackbirds, people raking and of course the sound of the sanding truck sanding the road the snow just fell on.
March 24, 2011
Temperatures
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
March 18 56 41 .00
March 19 57 40 .00
March 20 50 28 .00
March 21 47 28 .00
March 22 43 33 .31
March 23 47 34 .00
March 24 43 30 .21*
*Melted precipitation
March 24, 2011
Chappy
MARGARET KNIGHT
508-627-8894
(margaret02539@yahoo.com)
When my mother was a child in the 1930s, she said you could see pretty much everywhere on Chappy from the high spots because the fields had not yet grown up all the way after being grazed by sheep. When I started my house in 1973, I could see Cape Pogue Pond from my second floor; now I can’t imagine being able to see the water — it’s more than a quarter-mile away through the woods.
March 24, 2011
Chris Abbot Bids Adieu, Again, As Tisbury Theatre Impresario
The scent of mothballs had no chance to cling to Chris Abbot. Last year he retired from his teaching job, which included directing the annual school play at the Tisbury School. But only a few weeks ago, school principal Richie Smith inveigled him to return to the boards for Mr. Abbot’s third pass, rolled out this past weekend, of the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
March 24, 2011
Harbingers of Spring
Rachel Carson may have been wrong. I took my walk early Monday morning, the first day of spring, and it was anything but silent.
March 24, 2011
Birds in Central America
Central America is a fascinating area to visit. It is a relatively short plane ride and boasts an excellent variety of habitats. Recently we visited both El Salvador and Nicaragua. I could write a book about the 18-day journey, but will spare you. The Nicaragua leg of the trip was marvelous although not as birdy as I had hoped.
March 24, 2011
Look, Up in the Sky...
The sky didn’t fall, the floods didn’t come, nor did other catastrophes befall the world last Saturday night.
Pessimists, naysayers and end-of-the-world prophets can go home and recalculate their doomsday predictions for another date (2012 springs to mind). The so-called supermoon that we had on Saturday night, while spectacular, caused no calamities. It did cause many ohhs and ahhs for those of us that observed it.
