Hermine Hull
West Tisbury: Rez Williams, jazz concert, voting by mail, and Ghost Island Farm
I have been watching forsythia getting ready to bloom, branches I brought inside a week or so ago. Their buds are no longer tightly...
West Tisbury: Leading up to presidential primary
The past week has been one gray day after another. A shaft of sunlight may come through by mid-afternoon, but I can’t remember waking...
West Tisbury: Snowdrops, baby lambs, community suppers, and library programs
It’s been another week of storms, rain, and wind. Our one snowstorm covered the ground, leaving a snow-washed landscape before it disappeared. It’s turned...
West Tisbury: Covid, Parks and Recreation, Howes House trip, and library programs
It’s been a week of storms, of heavy rain and winds that scoured the beaches, and flooded roadways and basements across the Island. Big...
West Tisbury: Winter wellness, jazz concert, kindness rocks, and Aging Gracefully
After complaining about the lack of snow so far this winter, I was happy to look out my windows Sunday afternoon to see snowflakes...
West Tisbury: Snowless winters, Tony Rezendes, planners, and Covid
Walking around the yard, I have seen a few forsythia and cherry blossoms. I suppose I could bring some branches inside to force, but...
West Tisbury: Winter solstice, Carl Widdiss tree, and Athearn family
What a week we have had. After the rain last Monday, it’s been warm and sunny through the rest of the week. No need...
West Tisbury: Haynes Point tree, dollhouses, holiday party, and David Stanwood concert
We had some frosty cold days this past week. Seeing our rhododendron leaves shriveled up into themselves makes it all so visible.
I had the...
West Tisbury: Trips off-Island, holiday decorations, town party, jazz concert, and Circuit Arts
The weather has stayed mild most of the past week, our lovely long temperate autumn that makes up for our endlessly cool springs. Oddly,...
West Tisbury: Ukulele Jam, author talks, town potluck, Christmas Faire, and the night sky
Thanksgiving is over. November almost is, too. Tomorrow will be Dec. 1.
Station 1 put up their lights after a radio check this morning. Middletown...
West Tisbury: Pop-up book sale, Up-Island Council on Aging trips, and Planning Board
We have had a beautiful few days, cold enough for morning frosts, then sunny and clear during the days, cold again once the sun...
West Tisbury: Corn pudding time
A rimy haze coated our roofs and lawn this morning. There had been a few chilly mornings, but this was a real frost, and...
West Tisbury: Farmer’s Market, turkey dinner, town visioning workshop, and Charlie Parton
When my brother, Andy, called me Tuesday morning to wish me a happy birthday, he said it was snowing in Redding. Just a few...
West Tisbury: Autumn memories, fire department, Barn Raisers Ball, and Music Street Musicians
It was warm all week, in the 70s, then back into the 50s for the weekend. Partly sunny, partly gray. Yellow and browns predominate,...
West Tisbury: Bob Fischer, Green House Project, Gayle Gardens, and Halloween party
“Howdy, Neighbor,” was Bob Fischer’s customary greeting, whether he had walked up the path through the woods between our houses, driven down our driveway...
West Tisbury: Autumn colors, Harvest Festival, Seed Library, book clubs, and drawing group
It looks like an abstract expressionist painting outside my windows. The burning bush I planted 40 years ago, before they were discouraged as invasive,...
Works in progress
Driving up the steep driveway to the house where Barney Zeitz lives and makes art feels like entering a world apart. The path leading...
West Tisbury: Governance Task Force, library’s exhibit, Duo Amie concert, and Israel
Saturday was rainy again, drenching at times, then misty soft. It’s supposed to get sunny with temperatures in the 50s and low 60s for...
West Tisbury: Library exhibit, piano concert, photography book, and ‘Pinkletink the Froggie’
Another gray, rainy weekend, the third in a row. It still feels heavy and sticky outside, thankfully not as hot, but where are the...
West Tisbury: Family heirlooms, beach cleanup, ‘Braiding Sweetgrass,’ and author talk
It feels quieter since the hurricane-that-wasn’t. It’s officially fall, too. It may be all in my mind, but the change of seasons always feels...