Hermine Hull
West Tisbury
Despite temperatures being mild one day, then plunging to near-freezing the next, it really is starting to look like spring. The light feels softer...
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April 1 will have come and gone by the time you are reading this week’s column. In earlier years, it was the day John...
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Sunday was gray, wet, and grim, the weather appropriate for the task at hand. Mike and I planned to spend the day working on...
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My soda bread was in the oven as I sat down to write my column this morning. I will bring it to our early...
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Every time I drive into or out of my driveway, I’m afraid my car will be sucked into a muddy trench that seems deeper...
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Colors of the sky when I woke up:
Monday: Our woods were a scale of grays, from the white snow coating wet-darkened tree branches,...
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Another weekend preparing for a snowstorm. Soup made. Wood in. Wheelbarrows full outside the dining room door. Snow shovels on the porches. Flashlights. Candles....
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Snow is still on the ground, but milder days have opened areas of grass, gravel, and mud. I wonder if we will have a...
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I awoke on Saturday morning to softly falling snow that had covered our yard and the woods beyond. It continued on and off all...
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What a winter we are having.
I had mixed feelings, as the snowstorm we were promised for the second weekend in a row turned out...
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A storm was predicted for last weekend, a huge weather system expected to cut a swath through much of the country from Texas across...
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Just outside our dining room door are my earliest-blooming snowdrops, bravely making a show despite the snow we are expecting later. Some have been...
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2026 has certainly begun with a bang. Literally. America invading another country. Just when I felt grateful for the end of 2025, thinking the...
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The beautiful snow I wrote about last week is gone now. Mike made paths for the dog and the cat, paths to the compost...
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It’s snowing!Â
Although we were expecting it, and had spent much of Saturday preparing for it, waking up to see snow falling was a wonderful...
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The arrival of the Christmas season is a combination of anticipation, excitement, overwhelming busyness, and dread. Everything happens all at once. Everyone is rushing...
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Thanksgiving is mostly over. I think tonight will be our last turkey-and-stuffing leftovers. Tomorrow, the remains will become soup and pies. Nice to have...
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An early deadline this week, so I have been trying to come up with something for this column, my Thanksgiving column. Giving thanks seems...
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We finally had a few cold days last week — relatively cold, anyway; we haven’t had a hard frost yet. Mike had taken Abby...
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The wind has continued to strip trees of their last leaves, and litter the ground with branches. The air is full of moisture that...