The Gay Head Gallery is hooking up with neighbor Orange Peel Bakery to offer art as a possible topping to go with the more traditional pepperoni and onions.

The Home and Garden Television dream home in Edgartown has new owners this week ­— and they did not have to enter a sweepstakes to get the keys. Rosemary O’Brien and Eigil D. Rothe of Washington D.C. bought the house at 15 Crocker Drive on July 8 for $2,315,000.

Take a group of local cookbook authors, add food, wine and conversation, and you’ve got Cook the Vineyard!, a panel discussion-meets-lunch event sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Magazine. The second annual event will be held Monday, July 20, at Lola’s in Oak Bluffs, starting at noon. Tickets are $65 for a multi-course wine-paired lunch.

The Vineyard is a place of rejuvenation and inspiration for actress Amy Brenneman and director Brad Silberling. “It becomes this very creative place where the stakes are artistically high and financially low for me to just mess around,” Ms. Brenneman said.

Last Sunday, State Beach was invaded by millions of jelly-like organisms, and folks wanted to know what they were.

I guess this would be considered “High Summer.” There is plenty of food for the picking in the vegetable garden.

A recent survey of the major breeding grounds of waterfowl predicts record numbers of ducks will be migrating south in the fall.

For the second time this month, Sengekontacket Pond has been closed to shellfishing because of rainfall. The town of Oak Bluffs said the pond was closed Wednesday and would reopen on Monday, July 20 at the earliest. If there is more rainfall, the closure could be extended.

Naturalist Gus Ben David has handled everything from gigantic snakes to enormous birds of prey, but the latest creature under his care is less intimidating and quite a bit more endearing: a baby osprey recently rescued on Chappaquiddick. Mr. Ben David has been feeding and housing the small raptor.

Two-time Academy Award winning documentarian Barbara Kopple will be on the Island tonight to present her newest feature Hot Type: 150 Years of the Nation at the Chilmark Community Center for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.