It happens every year! The month of May is cloudy and chilly and does not lend itself to successful planting of warm weather crops or tender annuals. Then, just before the customers arrive and a...

Wind is my least favorite weather, but recently, in the Vineyard Haven Post Office parking lot, I actually enjoyed it. I watched it blow the ornamental cherry blossoms all over the place. Cars were...

Everyone is complaining about the wet and chilly weather. I’m not one of them. Any day now it will become unbearably hot, humid and dry. I’ll begin whining about the endless hauling of...

Last Friday evening the rain, thunder and lightning could almost be called biblical. It washed away my carefully applied Bobbex so naturally deer polished off most of my Pink Impression Darwin tulips...

The old refrain “April showers bring May flowers” has taken on a whole new meaning. We seem to have had plenty of rain and/or cloudy weather. The perennials are jumping out of the ground...

I took advantage of this past Monday’s weather. It was my last opportunity to make bread before the onslaught of full-on gardening. Early that morning right before the thunder and lightning...

I just watched some coverage of the latest winter storm to hit the upper Midwest. I’m grateful to live here after seeing the blizzard report. I still cannot get used to the naming of winter...

I was a bit blindsided on Tuesday morning. I did not expect such a hard freeze. I listened to the weather forecast but chose to not believe it. Over the nice warm weekend, I hauled out several large...

My least favorite weather is wind. Last Friday it was howling and disturbed my sleep. Because the moon was mostly full I could see from my bedroom window that the large plastic covering on my...

What I am about to say is unpopular but that has never stopped me in the past. I did not get enough winter. It’s been so nice most days that I did not get enough down time to simply putter...