Nature & Science
Garden Club
The Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club will hold its election of officers at the annual meeting on Tuesday, August 16 at 1 p.m. at the Old Mill in West Tisbury. Tim Simmons will present a program on Global Warming: Plants and Habitats.
A hospitality hour including refreshments follows the program.
The event is free for members and $5 for guests. For more information, call 508-693-5334.
The Vineyard’s salt marshes and beaches are extremely important habitats for a variety of nesting birds.
Crows were the only inhabitants of the fair grounds at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury yesterday, a thick morning fog hovering over the freshly cut field. But come next week the Ferris wheel will be up, the smell of barbecue and fried dough will float in the air, and wide eyes young and old will peer into the hall to see if a ribbon rests next to their entry.
This year the Polly Hill Arboretum’s annual David H. Smith Memorial lecture features Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens plant curator Bill Cullina, who will discuss the environment via a long-term geological view. His talk is called The Web of Life: Taking the Long View.
Out in the middle of Meshacket Cove on the Edgartown Great Pond on Wednesday morning, David Schlezinger was going down for the third time, in nine feet of water.
He wasn’t drowning, though. It was quite the reverse. Dr. Schlezinger’s problem was his buoyancy. It’s hard to insert a long stake into the bottom of a pond when you can’t bring a lot of weight to bear on it.
Tonight’s first quarter moon appears in the zodiacal constellation Libra. The moon is low in the southwestern sky after sunset. Tomorrow night, the moon is even farther south and closer to the horizon. The moon will be in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius.
Almanac
A comprehensive guide to weather and tides on the Island.
Vineyard Gardener
I guess this past week weather-wise is called a January thaw. We did not really experience it the last several years as December was unseasonably warm.
Farm & Field
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.