Colorful rows of flowers, vegetables and herbs were taking shape this week at Martha’s Vineyard High School, where the 20th annual plant sale, organized by the school’s horticulture, aquaculture and landscaping department, will begin Thursday and run through next week.

It turned out to be a decent weekend. Lawn mowers could be heard buzzing around town. The cherry trees in Harriet Bernstein’s front lawn were ablaze with color and so was the one on Music street.

Here are some sure signs of spring: the tennis courts at the bottom of Boxwood avenue are nearly filled every day and Morrice the Florist is in bloom.

If you’re here, take a ride — just about every building on Circuit avenue is being updated. If you’re longing for your return trip, it will be finished when you arrive.

Once again Mother Nature has teased us with spring. She gave us great weather over Mother’s Day weekend and on Monday. Everyone was walking around with shorts and tank tops.

Chilmark is enjoying the first real days of spring, just enough to get us thinking of how we can get the chores done and have an hour or so to ourselves to enjoy the various pleasures of such days.

Summer is just around the corner when you see Judy Buss and Paul Cardello back out on their bikes. They have a distinctly unhurried style of riding.

The commonwealth dutifully painted the white as well as the yellow road lines with a fresh coat of paint, and town meeting is over. State Road shall remain named as such.

Julianne Vanderhoop unseated incumbent Aquinnah selectman Beverly Wright in the annual town election Wednesday. The vote was 93 to 69.

The orange kittens are entertaining the staff and those who come to visit them. Foxy, a 2-year-old female Maine coon, is becoming a little more sociable. Ten-year-old Cody, also a shy girl, is also waiting for adoption.