Hermine Hull

Hurricane Dorian came and went with barely a notice. We had a lot of wind and rain Friday night when Mike took Nanuk out....

What a gorgeous holiday weekend we are having. While Hurricane Dorian is wreaking havoc on the Bahamas and heading toward the Southern U.S., we...

The days are notably shorter already. I notice that I have to turn the lights on in the kitchen when I come down in...

The busiest week of the summer is past. Illumination Night, the fair, fireworks, plus the regular busyness of lectures, music, art exhibitions, work, guests,...

It’s always exciting to drive past the Ag Hall in August and watch preparations for the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair. The booths are going...

It’s hard to think about what to write after the horrific shootings in El Paso and Dayton this past weekend, following a mass shooting...

August 1. The sign for the Ag Fair is already up. The fire department crew has started getting the hamburger booth ready to put...

Wanting something cold for dinner tonight, Mike mentioned a pasta salad of some kind. It would be easy, one of those things you could...

“When the old boys talked, you didn’t interrupt them … You listened …”This quote was attributed to Thomas Hart Benton as a description of...

I guess this is what one expects of summer weather, the hot, humid days and nights that seem never-ending. There was only one day...

The opening has finally been cut at Quansoo and into the Great Pond, so there is lovely beach to walk on with Nanuk in...

“My pruning is more long-term than yours.”For sheer understatement, the above comment by my husband shocked me. It did make me laugh, though. Long-time...

Monday will be the first of July. June has been mostly cool and pleasant, so it doesn’t seem possible that it could already be...

I just saw my first firefly of the summer. Up late watching the first episode of the new season of “Endeavour” with my kitty...

I had just driven into the parking lot at Morning Glory Farm one day last week when I noticed a gentleman walking a beautiful...

The sun is sparkling in the treetops, pale green leaves against a cloudless blue sky, a perfect morning. I wish the leaves never darkened....

My mother-in-law, Barbara or Bobby Hull, died last Monday morning. It felt unexpected, although she was 95, but she was fine on Mother’s Day,...

Until I was 9 years old, my family lived in a small Cape on East Ridge in Ridgefield, Conn. There were two dogwood trees...

Having grown up in a one-story house, I never tire of waking up and looking out our upstairs bedroom windows at a view that...

“I’ll be playing music, so just come right in,” Heidi Schultz had told me over the phone. The energetic sounds of Bach’s “Allegro” from...