West Tisbury
Walking down our driveway this morning, I smelled the dusty, leafy smell of fall. It is a smell that takes me back to my childhood. Raking up giant piles of leaves to jump into....
West Tisbury
It’s finally raining, a softly falling rain, not the heavy nor’easter that has been on the news all week. Maybe it will change. Maybe the rain will get heavy, and wind will whip tree...
Oak Bluffs
“Wampanoags did not lose their land, any more than Indians elsewhere on the continent. Colonists and their successors took it, through every means at their disposal.” –“This Land Is Their Land,” David J. Silverman
Indigenous...
West Tisbury
Looking out my dining room windows is a painting, one I have painted in different seasons, at different times of the day, through windows, or from outside. Today it is a wildness, a thicket...
West Tisbury
I am learning to be grateful for wildflowers that appear on their own around our yard. Goldenrod, asters, black-eyed Susans are blooming in abundance now, providing a feast for bees, and a bouquet I...
Oak Bluffs
“But there’s a full moon rising, let’s go dancing in the light. We know where the music’s playing, let’s go out and feel the night.” –Neil Young, “Harvest Moon”
Happy October! September has been a...
West Tisbury
I am learning to be grateful for wildflowers that appear on their own around our yard. Goldenrod, asters, black-eyed Susans are blooming in abundance now, providing a feast for bees, and a bouquet I...