Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

May 21 70 52 .00

May 22 72 52 .00

May 23 67 56 Trace

May 24 69 55 Trace

May 25 75 56 .00

May 26 79 59 .00

May 27 84 57 .03

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 68º F.

Not having a television, I was unaware (until someone mentioned it) that there’s a Wisteria Lane that holds a special place in the prime-time lineup.

Wisteria may or may not have a special place in your heart, but it will have a big place in your yard if you don’t keep an eye (and a pruner) out. Notorious for its rapid growth and strangling potential, wisteria is a plant to be reckoned with.

The Polly Hill Arboretum Visitor Center opens for the season on Saturday, May 29, with daily hours from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tours of the grounds are offered everyday at 2 p.m. The grounds are open year-round from sunrise to sunset.

The recreational season is off and running and no one can appreciate it better now than Capt. Scott McDowell of Chilmark. His boat is in the water working perfectly after a mishap earlier this year.

Friday, May 21: Summer-like weather. The weekend opens with clear skies and high flying cirrus clouds. Temperature rises to the 70s, warmer at Five Corners, where cars coming off the ferry slow traffic. Rosa rugosa are in full bloom along the Beach Road in Edgartown. Breezy afternoon.

Pilot John Levinson said the first time he took painter Kara Taylor up in his single-engine Mooney Acclaim she didn’t say a word. “She was transfixed,” he says of her response to viewing the Island’s contours at 1,200 feet.

Old Sculpin Opening

The Old Sculpin Gallery and Studio School of the Martha’s Vineyard Art Association is opening for the season today, May 28, with a group members show as well as an exhibition of selected works from its permanent collection of art made on the Vineyard from 1890 to the present.

For more information please call 508-627-4881 or see online oldsculpingallery.org.

The Vineyard has long been a haven for artists. Heading into Memorial Day weekend, art gallery doors will be thrown open for the season, with paintings, sculpture, ceramics and other objects ready to meet their public. Most of the season’s formal shows await June or July start dates, but a handful of galleries have lined up events for this coming holiday weekend.

“My dad has a barn,” chirped a wide-eyed, hyperactive Mickey Rooney. “And my mom can sew the costumes,” the pigtailed, pinafore-bedecked Judy Garland replied. And off they went, hand in hand, singing and dancing their way across the barnyard.

Well, it was something like that and they didn’t even live on the Vineyard where the performing arts culture has grown and grown. No more drafty barns here and mom can now sit in the audience and not have to sew costumes.

Eisenhauer Anniversary

The Eisenhauer Gallery invites the Vineyard to celebrate a decade of connecting artists with Islanders with a 10th annual Memorial Day exhibition. Free and open to the public, the Saturday evening opening reception runs from 6 to 8 p.m. and will feature work by gallery favorite Tjasa Owen, as well as from landscape painters Joshua Smith, Peter Roux and Petria Mitchell, all three of whom are making their Eisenhauer Gallery debut.