Tag Archives: license plates
June License Plate Report
Woo woo! June was the best month ever in recent memory for the license plate game: nine new sightings. Consulting maps back to 2011, I find a high of six and a low of three. Nine beats ’em all, and they … Continue reading
May License Plate Report
Missouri and Michigan showed up in May. Too bad Mississippi didn’t make it a 3M hat trick. The tally was disappointing till I consulted my maps for previous years. They reminded me that May often isn’t a big month for … Continue reading
April License Plate Report
A pretty good month, all in all: Oregon, Georgia, Indiana, and New Mexico. The gaps are filling in. Now I’m on the lookout for Washington state and the Carolinas, all of which are running late this year. Delaware is often … Continue reading
March License Plate Report
You wouldn’t have trusted a report I posted on April Fool’s Day, right? And yesterday was another one of those ridiculously crowded Sundays: We Stand Together at 1, Messiah rehearsal at 2:30, campaign mailing at Richard’s at 4, and writers’ group at … Continue reading
February License Plate Report
February is generally a slow month — who comes to a New England seaside resort in the dead of winter? — but the month just past brought five good ones: Oklahoma, Illinois, Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas. Texas actually showed … Continue reading
January License Plate Report
After the very slim pickings of fall, January’s bounty is welcome indeed. This January’s tally of 16 isn’t great — anything less than 20 is nothing to brag about — but it sure beats last January’s 13. The unexpectedly early … Continue reading
Year-End License Plate Report 2016
In the license-plate-spotting department, 2016, a nasty year in so many ways, was nothing to write home about. No end-of-year surprises. After Montana in October, there was nothing, period. Still AWOL as 2016 slipped into 2017 were Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, … Continue reading
October License Plate Report
Fall is never great for license-plate spotting. The hard-to-find states are even harder to find when the island population drops. However, in the course of a day it seems that all the world passes through Five Corners, Vineyard Haven. Virtually … Continue reading
September License Plate Report
Just one September sighting: Missouri. Fall pickings are notoriously slow in the license plate game, so this may be it for the year. Eleven states are still blank on the map. On the other hand, Nevada, Wyoming, and Louisiana aren’t … Continue reading
August License Plate Report
Iowa and Kansas both showed up in August, good ones both, especially for August. Vineyard roads are jammed in August — most years it’s all anyone talks about, though this year the lack of rain and the presidential election are … Continue reading
