Island Light: Christmas Week
Fish pots make the tree and buoys are the trimming at Memorial Wharf.
Timothy Johnson
Time for a ride in a two-horse open sleigh down Main Street Vineyard Haven.
Timothy Johnson
Unseasonably warm temperatures bring golfers, such as West Tisbury police chief Dan Rossi, out to the links.
Timothy Johnson
Unseasonably warm temperatures bring golfers, such as West Tisbury police chief Dan Rossi, out to the links.
Timothy Johnson
Great Rock Bight sparkles under picture perfect blue skies.
Timothy Johnson
Bevy of swans ride out the fog on Chilmark Pond.
Timothy Johnson
Restored barn at Cranberry Acres along Lambert's Cove Road.
Timothy Johnson
Clouds scud by in blue skies over Oak Bluffs.
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Migratory fish crows gather at the East Chop Beach Club.
Timothy Johnson
Extending into Vineyard Sound, this pier is taking the winter off.
Timothy Johnson
Still standing from another era, Chilmark's brick works chimney rises.
Timothy Johnson
Even as the days grow shorter and darker and the first day of winter approaches, the Vineyard turns brighter and depends on the lovely strings of seasonal lights and decorations to illuminate the passing December days. Candles light the windows of Island homes and church altars speak to the joy and compassion of a Christmas season colored by special festivities and music and theatre and thoughts not of ourselves but of others.
