Martha’s Vineyard Fair 2014: Noirsville
I did not go to the Fair on Saturday. Why? I got seduced by the garden, which needed a lot of weeding and thinning. Example: if I don’t finish thinning the […]
I did not go to the Fair on Saturday. Why? I got seduced by the garden, which needed a lot of weeding and thinning. Example: if I don’t finish thinning the […]
Here are a few sets of images from yesterday’s (Friday) Fair. We don’t have a dog or cats. So it’s always a treat to have pet-owning friends visit. Especially the […]
Thursday is a good day for a first pass through the Hall, before petals wilt, leaves sag, and dust accumulates. An octopus got me. It seems like the beasts at […]
The start of the Fair for me, these years, is to visit the Hall in the late afternoon, get a bite to eat, and then to rendezvous with my Flying […]
I finally got to see a sunny Cuttyhunk dawn, thanks to a photograph sent me by R. L. Scott. It’s August. The third week of August. Freight boats, fully laden, […]
The camera preserves a moment in time, and serves it back to us, for review and contemplation at later moments. One of the lasting impressions of the race is the […]
Falmouth Road Race runners had a perfectly beautiful day for a road race. Many ran seriously. Some ran in memory of others. Many ran for fun. And there were some […]
About ten thousand people ran past me today. What an impressive sight. Humanity arrayed! There was everyone from the dead serious professional runner, seeking perfection, through folks in their seventies […]
Police sirens and helicopter noises mark the start of the Sunday of the Falmouth Road Race. The course goes along Surf Drive, which is about a mile from our house. A […]
August. If you want to start a conversation around here, you can set one off by saying “August.” It’s crowded here in August. The amount of hurry, even desperation, that […]