An Evening Without (Art*Island) with performance readings will be presented in collaboration with the Massachusetts ACLU and the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.

The change of light in the fall is my cue to put up my feeders. I can remember the first of many feeders I have had over the years. It was a big pine cone stuffed with a mix of bacon fat, peanut butter and oatmeal.

Brrr! Mighty chilly Monday morning! I’ve been lulled into complacency with the previous six weeks of beautiful weather. I suppose it is time to take stock of overall readiness for the next season.

Eumorpha pandorus is an animal with a split personality.

For at least 10 days this month, Chappaquiddick will be a one-ferry Island.

With the On Time III — the larger of the two ferries that run the 527 feet between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick — being hauled out of the water Oct. 20 for routine maintenance, Chappy Ferry owner Peter Wells is cautioning passengers about delays.

Aquinnah Public Library will feature fun with dragons on Saturday. Stop in for coffee and tea and other goodies. The latest DVDs have arrived for your viewing pleasure. There is a cart full of free books and movies on the back deck.

I can’t say it enough: we need rain. I will probably eat my words at some point but I was doing some planting Sunday and the soil was just like powder. But on a good note, Tuesday’s weather was the weather that makes us love New England — cool, sunny and calm winds.

Anne Heywood has lost her knitting. And no, “knitting” is not a euphemism for “mind”. She was searching for it in all the likely corners of town and Chappy, but had yet to uncover it when she met me on the ferry. So if anyone finds knitting of any sort, please contact Anne.

Chilmark is working its way through a mild and pretty October. There is a lot going on and everything seems to be under control. The town is having the North Road repaired in places. This last week the Tabor House stretch was paved and now the D.H.’s Hill will be done beginning this Friday and continuing Monday if weather permits.

The sun sets now at about 6 p.m. and is dropping faster each day and when daylight saving time ends in two weeks, early darkness in the morning as well as evening will have us in her grasp. Pumpkins now grace many front lawns except for the large masked man who is in front of Trip Barnes’s house on State Road.