Island Light: New Year
Hello, and Happy New Year.
Hello, and Happy New Year.
Oak Bluffs harbor greets the new day.
Oak Bluffs harbor greets the new day.
Unfolding the kite sail before plunging into the ocean.
Unfolding the kite sail before plunging into the ocean.
Brock Callen takes advantage of the weather for some kite boarding.
Brock Callen takes advantage of the weather for some kite boarding.
Not to be outdone this dog runs in the waves with some new found jetsam.
Not to be outdone this dog runs in the waves with some new found jetsam.
Over the harbor and through the Sound to grandmother's house we went.
Over the harbor and through the Sound to grandmother's house we went.
Keeping guard on all that is quiet and bright at Inkwell Beach.
Keeping guard on all that is quiet and bright at Inkwell Beach.
Greeting the day on a Martha's Vineyard Marina pier.
Greeting the day on a Martha's Vineyard Marina pier.
Perfect calm for this gull's appraisal of Edgartown harbor.
Perfect calm for this gull's appraisal of Edgartown harbor.
Do these cows at the Farm Institute know something about the weather that I should know?
Do these cows at the Farm Institute know something about the weather that I should know?
Regal llamas take in the scene at an Edgartown estate.
Regal llamas take in the scene at an Edgartown estate.
Old chain and wood makes for a artful designs by the Reading Room.
Old chain and wood makes for a artful designs by the Reading Room.
When he was editor of the Vineyard Gazette, the late Henry Beetle Hough wrote: "The path of a New Year . . . is not fresh turf to be walked upon in the symbolic spirit and legend of the unicorn, but a hard worn trail familiar to footsteps of all generations that have passed this way."
Happy New Year.