Ode to Spring

Landscapers are pruning and planting, DQ is serving-up vanilla twists, and the Flying Horses are about to ride in search of the coveted brass ring.  Let the 2011 season begin...

Lilac/landscape plantings via Landscope.
Carousel Ad - MV Herald, August 11th, 1886 via OldTimeIslands.
Price to ride carousel in 1886, 5 cents - and today just $2...still a reasonable sum.
Photo:  Pyden

Gifted Women of Spring: The Writer

Fashion via Toast.

"I first read Elements of Style during the summer before I went off to Exeter, and I still direct my students at Harvard to their definition about the difference between 'that' and 'which'.  It is the bible for good, clear writing." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Real Estate:  Waterfront Cottage Retreat in Oak Bluffs, overlooking the Vineyard Haven Harbor. Inspired thoughts transpire over a wood-burning fire at dusk, while the waves lap beside your sandy beach. Information available with Suzanne Lanzone, price upon request.

Grand Illumination - Martha's Vineyard

Oak Bluffs Campground, Wednesday - August 18th...one of my favorite events of the year.  After singing patriotic songs under the Tabernacle...chills down my spine...when the crowd breaks out in cheers, after the first lantern gets lit and hung...setting-off a flood of lantern lights throughout the entire gingerbread cottage community.

Photos:  Pyden