Tisbury Breakfast

On Friday, March 16, the Tisbury Business Association is holding a business breakfast at the Black Dog Tavern located on Beach Road extension. The breakfast is between 8 and 9:30 a.m.

No word yet on whether green eggs and ham will be served.

The cost is $15 per person. For information or to register email tisburybusiness@gmail.com.

David Welch Art Show

Photographer David Welch is the featured artist for the month of March at the Vineyard Haven Public Library’s Art of the Stacks series.

Mr. Welch is an Island native whose work explores social issues using large-format photography steeped in conceptual influences from art history and economic theory. In 2011 he was selected as one of Photolucida’s Critical Mass top 50 photographers. He is also a recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he earned an MFA in photography.

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kathleencase@comcast.net)

Even though the temperature never reached above 60 degrees Wednesday as it did off-Island, we had a beautiful sunny day and the crocuses were in full bloom. I even noticed that my dwarf irises had opened. It gives you such a great feeling and a lot more energy.

Nancy Gardella

508-693-3308

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HOLLY NADLER

508-274-2329

(hollynadler@gmail.com)

Julian Robinson, 82, of Oak Bluffs, the wildlife photographer who died on Friday, Feb. 24, was one of those men with an air of subtle wisdom, and of silences filled with insights that he shared with you in his pictures.

Morgan Freeman would play him in the movie.

Hello Jackson

Melissa and Bill Callahan of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Jackson Thomas Callahan, born on Feb. 24, 2012, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Jackson weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth and joins big brother Griffin.

Crow blackbirds have arrived on Island. They run and hop around the yard and fields holding their head and keel-shaped tails high. In the right light the feathers on their heads and necks are an iridescent purple-blue and their backs bronzy. I am used to these common grackles arriving around St. Patrick’s Day or the Ides of March. The grackles have a different idea.

I finally sat down and perused a few seed catalogues. I went ahead and ordered peas from Pinetree Gardens out of New Gloucester, Maine. It is my favorite for several reasons. It has simple, non-glossy paper. They don’t give too many seeds. The prices are reasonable and the package arrives within two days. I like to grow all three types of peas — English, snow and sugar snap. This year I stayed with one variety of each type. I have a sturdy fence so all the varieties are five feet tall. At my age I like less bending over. For years I grew the dwarf varieties because I knew I wouldn’t get fencing together. For several years I cut random brush and used it as supports. Beech twigs are particularly attractive and hold up well.

Rick Bausman, the well-known Island musician, will not be the only one diligently drumming this spring. His penchant for percussion is shared by other creatures that have their own rhyme and reasons for rhythm.

While Rick drums for fun, wildlife drums for food. Woodpeckers may be the first bird to spring to mind as tapping tricksters, yet there are other animals that drum the dirt rather than the trees for their treat. Pounding the ground causes vibrations that bring earthworms to the surface.