I spotted NO new license plates in April. This may be a first for any month in the first half of the year. It is not one I want to repeat. So —

This afternoon, on my way home from the Mailroom in Edgartown (where I overnighted a hardcopy proofread back to a client) by way of Reliable Market in Oak Bluffs (where I bought a few staples I’d run out of, like brown sugar and maple syrup), I parked Malvina Forester in the hospital parking lot and took a stroll.

Exotic license plates are often to be found in the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital parking lots. This walkabout yielded Missouri and Iowa — good job! Reassured that May will not be the bust that April was, I can now get on with license-plate spotting on the road.