If I were a plant, I might be trailing arbutus.

May has arrived and brought the northward migration of warblers and other songbirds.

A couple who own property at the extreme northern tip of Chappaquiddick are suing the Trustees of Reservations in an effort to stop the organization from selling oversand vehicle permits at Cape Pogue, a remote 400-acre wildlife refuge.

The two brightest planets in our sky are visible in the morning. Venus and Jupiter are so close they can talk to each other.

Alley McConnell of the Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group affectionately calls the shellfish hatchery, with its small, stacked, simply constructed, white-painted rooms and south-facing windows "a water garden tree-house."

Invertebrate investigations dominated discussions in our house last week.