Gallery 13b will be open this weekend and feature new work by Island artist Josh Yates. There is a reception for the show on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 5 to 9 p.m.

Plein Air is in the air. For the month of October the Martha’s Vineyard Museum and Arts Martha’s Vineyard are teaming up to celebrate creativity done outdoors. During the month various museum properties will be open for Island artists for a series of plein air sessions.

For the month of October, Chris Hughes will be the featured artist at the Vineyard Haven Mocha Motts. And just who is Chris Hughes you should ask, because if the answer is anywhere near as rewarding as his art, then his art is priceless.

Vineyard House, the residential program for early substance abuse recovery, announced a $3 million capital campaign this week to build a new facility in Vineyard Haven.

Board president Mark Jenkins said the new facility — a campus-style complex located on Short Hill Road, off of Holmes Hole Road in Vineyard Haven — will enable the organization to address substance abuse in a fuller scope. Since its inception in 1997, Vineyard House, the only sober-living facility on the Island, has operated out of three separate houses staffed entirely by volunteers.

This Saturday, Oct. 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the West Tisbury Library is hosting a fairy house building day on the grounds of the library. The library will provide the materials, all of which come from nature. Fairies are not so much a part of the back-to-land movement as a we-have-never-left-the-land species.

The fifth annual Island Elderly Housing arts and crafts show and sale is Saturday, Oct. 6, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Woodside Village 260b Village Road in Oak Bluffs, across from the regional high school.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Tennis (MVCT) is sponsoring its second adult beginning tennis clinic on Saturday, Oct. 13, on the clay courts of Farm Neck in Oak Bluffs.

The Island Food Pantry will be open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 to 4 p.m. starting Monday, Oct. 15.

Some folks look at a piece of corn on the cob and think, “tasty.” Others think of pygmy goats and natural dyes.

Hope springs eternal. My fall vegetable garden has renewed my self-confidence as a gardener. The baby kale, carrots and lettuce are coming along nicely. I picked a wonderful assortment of greens for a delicious salad over the weekend.