“Dad, tell me about the old days, when life was normal and we could go out and do things, like play with friends and drive off-Island for adventures.”

This year’s northward migration is peaking now, but it continues to be about the return of our nesting birds rather than migrants moving through as they head to their more distant nesting grounds.

Purple has always been my favorite color. I don’t need to wait until I am old to wear it.

Because it has been oddly chilly for April and May, the spring ornamental bushes and trees are behaving the way they did decades ago.

From the May 10, 1946 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Elizabeth Bowie Hough:

There is so much time to sit on my back deck and watch spring unfold.

Continuing with the book recommendations from last week, let me draw your attention to Oak Bluffs writer and poet Jennifer Smith Turner.

We have had some beautiful weather.

What’s that saying, “April showers bring May flowers?”

The grass is beginning to grow, the shad is blooming, the daylight hours are stretching.