Vineyard Medical Care (formerly Vineyard Medical Services) is on track to blaze new trails after a recent change of ownership brings with it an added focus on clinical research, including into tick-borne illnesses and laboratory diagnostics.

Mytoi Garden on Chappaquiddick is quietly resplendent in late summer, with sunlight filtering through tall pitch pines onto the green leaves of floating water lilies. A few of the Japanese maples are beginning to show their brilliant red leaves. Fall is on its way.

At an open house last week, leaders at the Island's only residential facility for recovery from addiction showcased the new modular Vineyard Haven complex. The $3 million project is due to be completed by the end of the year.

Esteban Aranzabe will take over as head coach for the boys team this fall, while the girls team will be led by Rocco Bellebuono. Both men are well known as longtime coaches and leaders in the Island youth soccer program.

There are three Jacob sheep across from me, big, gray and alert with curling horns.

On Saturday, there will be a reception in honor of John Stobart at his Edgartown gallery. The expatriate British painter, now 84, has built his painting career on precision-infused oil renderings of maritime scenes.