Summertime, And the Livin' Is Easy
Follow your nose and pick sweet peas.
Follow your nose and pick sweet peas.
What could be finer than being on South Beach and being young.
What could be finer than being on South Beach and being young.
Beating the heat under the umbrellas at the Sea Shanty on Edgartown harbor.
Beating the heat under the umbrellas at the Sea Shanty on Edgartown harbor.
The beach is just as filled as the parking lot at Menemsha.
The beach is just as filled as the parking lot at Menemsha.
Bird's eye view of the bridge jumpers on State Beach.
Bird's eye view of the bridge jumpers on State Beach.
Edgartown Yacht Club 420s share the channel with Tigress.
Edgartown Yacht Club 420s share the channel with Tigress.
Vineyard Sound serenades summer guests on Edgartown's Main street.
Vineyard Sound serenades summer guests on Edgartown's Main street.
It's always party time in Oak Bluffs harbor.
It's always party time in Oak Bluffs harbor.
Chappy ferry line grows longer on beach days.
Chappy ferry line grows longer on beach days.
Zodiac crusing by Memorial Wharf.
Zodiac crusing by Memorial Wharf.
Fresh local fish deserves a healthy line.
Fresh local fish deserves a healthy line.
If it's July, then hydrangeas are on many a dining table.
If it's July, then hydrangeas are on many a dining table.
Community gardens at Thimble Farm are in full swing.
Community gardens at Thimble Farm are in full swing.
The Island needs no calendar to mark this stop along the way into summer. Our journey in the seasonal fast lane begins and it truly is summertime on the Vineyard.
And now, the blur of days along our never ending shoreline shifts the rhythm of Island life to a point where time passes too quickly. The signs of season are everywhere to be seen. It is a story told in longer lines at fish markets and in ferry queues, in parking places that are suddenly as precious as gold and in the visits of friends and strangers to crowded Island beaches stretching from Chilmark to Chappaquiddick, from Oak Bluffs to Edgartown and beyond to the moorish up-Island landscapes of Aquinnah.
Welcome to Island summer.