Sails on Vineyard Sound and an Icy Digression
Vineyard Sound lies between two thrust moraines created by the most recent ice age. The two moraines which delineate this body of water were formed as though by a bulldozer. […]
Vineyard Sound lies between two thrust moraines created by the most recent ice age. The two moraines which delineate this body of water were formed as though by a bulldozer. […]
People are complaining. The plants are growing too fast. A friend of mine cut her grass before she went away for the weekend, and when she came home, she had […]
Another six things seen. The other day we were on the water, on a tiny ferry, from which these first three things were seen. Cormorants resting. None have their wings […]
In the discreet and proper late nineteenth era, “leg” was on the proscribed vocabulary list. Supporting “members”, such as table and chair “legs”, were referred to as “limbs”. Out of modesty, […]
There’s been lots to see lately. As the USA Memorial Holiday weekend looms, posts may be short, and primarily pictorial. Honored guests from the Big City will be coming for […]
As the spring equinox approaches and the days get longer, when thaw has come and banished ice from earth, comes a magic night. In the dawn after that dark, hundreds […]
While walking on School Street, in the village of Woods Hole, in more of a hurry than I should have been, I suddenly stopped, my eye attracted by the sight […]
Elizabeth Knox’s home was on the north side of Music Street, diagonally across from Ruth Brown’s house. Betty Knox was one of the dozen or so dowagers who populated the […]
Last March, one of our local papers had a little trouble in their classified ads department. I was going to be too busy to write that day, but sometimes a writing […]
You garden fans and maniacs will enjoy this tour. There will be three sets of photos, taken April 20, May 11, and May 19. There will be three images per set, […]