Category Archives: Martha’s Vineyard
At Sepiessa
Late yesterday afternoon I took Trav to the M.V. Land Bank’s Sepiessa Point Reservation so he could get his paws wet and we both could see something other than the same old same-old. Sepiessa is a great spit of land … Continue reading
June License Plate Report
Not much action early in the month, but things picked up in the last 10 days or so. Arizona and Arkansas showed up the same day. A-A-A-A . . . Could Alabama and Alaska be far behind? Well, yeah, they … Continue reading
6 Towns in 3 Days!
You knew it, I knew it: if I’d made it to five of the six island towns in the same week, I had to go for #6 before the week was out. So this afternoon Travvy and I took a … Continue reading
Town Lines
It just dawned on me that here it is only Wednesday and I’ve already been in five of the six island towns. This is unusual. West Tisbury is a no-brainer: I live in it. I do most of my grocery … Continue reading
Plot
Plotting fiction is like making rock candy. Left to itself, boiled sugar water just sits there. Nothing happens. Well, yes, things happen, but they take so long that it’s a rare soul who’ll just sit there and watch. Not the … Continue reading
Poison Ivy
The undersung green in the landscape. Everyone rhapsodizes about the coming of spring, but no one rhapsodizes about poison ivy. There’s a lot of it out there. It climbs up trees, it lurks under scrub oak and huckleberry, it even … Continue reading
I Say It’s My Birthday
. . . because it is, for another couple of hours. Some years I take my birthday off. This year I didn’t. I’m drowning in work. I can’t afford to take a day off — but I didn’t really want … Continue reading
Logistics
Thinking about “getting around,” as in “I use my car mostly to get around” and “If I didn’t have a car, how would I get around?” . . . By the middle of last week, the noise coming from the … Continue reading
May License Plate Report
Sing hey for May! Only three new sightings, but two of them were of plates I never saw in all of 2012: South Dakota! New Mexico! And Georgia, which isn’t quite so special but whose absence was leaving a rather … Continue reading
So around 4:15 this afternoon Travvy and I were waiting to cross State Road to go to the West Tisbury post office — waiting at the crosswalk, mind you — and a nice person in an older white Subaru Outback … Continue reading
From the Seasonally Occupied Territories . . . 