I hardly ever see anyone else on these walks, even as we cross the main road at Blow Your Bugle Corner.

Perhaps, on your way past Slip Away Farm, you have noticed a new structure being built behind the old farmhouse.

A very low tide revealed a sandbar at the end of Washque Avenue, reshaping the familiar landscape into something new as shellfisherman dug for clams in the fading light.

I hope you are pulling out your sewing kits and hot glue guns and making some creative costumes.

I am writing this column to you while on a family vacation in New Mexico, within a landscape that could not be more different than our own on Chappaquiddick.

The light on the Pimpneymouse Farm field early this morning was, quite simply, breathtaking.

My family and I were in Vermont for a wedding this weekend and it seems that fall settled into Chappaquiddick while we were away.

LILY WALTER
(slipawayfarm@gmail.com)

The water at East Beach was so clear over the weekend. Usually the visibility is obscured by some seaweed or silt, but this weekend, the sandy ocean bottom, all sifted into ridges, could be clearly seen from the water’s surface. Fish darted under kicking toes and a jellyfish floated quietly by one swimmer who spotted it and quickly went the other way. A group of terns arrived, careening into the water at top speed and coming up with small prey. Beach-goers lazed under umbrellas, transitioning seamlessly between ocean dips and sun soaking.

My favorite week of the summer has arrived: fair week!

If you have lived on Chappy for any amount of time, you know we are an island of unique and variable mail and package delivery.