Nature & Science
“One could do worse that be a swinger of birches.”
So said Robert Frost, who also insisted that he’d “like to go by climbing a birch tree/And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven/Till the tree could bear no more, but dipped its top and set me down again/ That would be good both going and coming back.”
By LYNNE IRONS
Show time is tonight and it continues through Monday night. The thin crescent moon passes by two planets in the nights ahead.
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
Oct. 24 47 29 .00
Oct. 25 60 34 .00
Oct. 26 65 55 .87
Oct. 27 65 44 .01
Oct. 28 65 43 .12
Oct. 29 56 41 .31
Oct. 30 50 32 .00
Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 54º F.
The stock market may be seeing red on Wall street this autumn, but here on the Vineyard there is a bright future in cranberries. On the Island and across southeastern Massachusetts, it is a banner year for cranberries, both wild and cultivated.
By LYNNE IRONS
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.