American author and critic Pamela Hansford Johnson could have been inspired by a Vineyard sunset when she enthused, “The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”

Mahatma Gandhi was also clearly convinced of the divine nature of sunsets, observing that “When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the Creator.”

It is easy to make rash judgments when the subject is poison sumac.

It is nuts that we went from feast to famine.

Last year, you may remember, there was a bumper crop of acorns that fell in your yard, on your windshield, and, if you didn’t seek cover, on your head! The overabundance of acorns, called a “mast” year, made for slippery walks in the woods, but very happy and well-fed wildlife.

What a difference a year makes!

“There are two types of people; those who eat kale and those who should.”

Bo Muller-Moore, to whom this quote is attributed, is a nutritional prophet and a kale entrepreneur. While it is unclear whether he grows the green stuff himself, his “Eat More Kale” T-shirts are a must-have gift for the kale lover in your life.

If you are reading this column, then Don Yeomans was correct.

Yeomans, a senior research scientist at NASA, last week assured the public that a sizeable asteroid heading our way would not collide with our home planet Earth or our moon.

Thank goodness, he was right.