Yes, you read the title right: The calendar says May 27, but this is the April license plate report. And no, you didn’t miss the March license plate report, because there wasn’t one. I didn’t spot any new plates in March. This has never happened before. No new plates in September, October, November, and/or December is no biggie, but no new plates in March? That’s downright weird.

Not to worry, however — it’s been an interesting year so far, and not in a bad way. Ferment is happening, and in my life at least ferment is usually good.

So to the April sightings. The April sightings ranged from solid (Wisconsin and Colorado) to excellent (Montana) to stupendous (Alaska). Actually Montana is probably as hard to get as Alaska, but Montana has been sitting outside the same cottage on the Beach Road for at least two months now so it’s not feeling exactly scarce. I’ve seen it often because work on the drawbridge has been ongoing since forever (OK, since late winter), and when I get stuck waiting for the light to change it seems I’m always a stone’s throw from Montana.

Today (keep in mind that it’s May, not April) I spotted Iowa at the intersection of Barnes and the Edgartown–West Tisbury Road and then Kentucky on Kennebec in Oak Bluffs, but I couldn’t color them in till I’d put April to bed so here we are.