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Vineyard Februaries …
I’ve been to Martha’s Vineyard in February and I love it. I love it any time but February is as different from summer on the Vineyard as you can possibly get.
There’s a cold crispness in the air, the colors are more vivid, the Island is quiet and yet speaks volumes to those who take the time to look, listen and drink in the beauty and wonder that is the soul of Martha’s Vineyard.
February 1989… a light dusting of snow made everything look like powdered sugar had fallen all over the Island.
February 1995… no snow that trip but bitter cold. Did not stop me from visiting the Gay Head cliffs in Aquinnah on the western most tip of the Vineyard… or hiking through the woods of Christiantown to visit the tiny chapel there.
I also experimented a bit with black and white film. From top left… Edgartown harbor, Christiantown stone wall..Sengekontacket Pond and South Beach.
February 2007… bitter cold, dusting of over night snow, icy ponds and harbors… and brilliant sunsets.
My birthday is in February and sadly the only one I’ve ever spent on the Vineyard was in 1950 when my beloved godmother, Gertrude Norris passed away. But I’m not anywhere near done having birthdays so who knows what the future will bring 🙂
NY State Sheep & Wool Festival 2014 …
… otherwise known in knitting and spinning circles as ‘Rhinebeck’ (no pun intended)
Saturday, Oct 18…7:30 sunrise…
9:30 a.m. arrival at Rhinebeck… already a jagillion cars there…
and people…
even though it was mostly cloudy and even spritzed a few times the foliage as usual was beautiful…
these friendly looking folk caught my eye…
they were in front of the museum which I had never been in … the exhibits included old milk wagons, baby carriages, wash tubs, and a man making caned seats…
there’s more to the sheep and wool festival than livestock and yarn…there’s a lot of other things to be looked at, admired and coveted.. for years I denied myself the small, orange, felted pumpkins… and then 2 years ago I got one… and then last year another one… and this year a third one….
but they’re not the only thing I had my eye on… there were these baskets too… my daughter had one, friends had them, almost every third person walking around Rhinebeck had them… they were great to put stashes of wool in, or food, or a small animal even… so this year my first stop… after coffee… was a basket…
here’s my treasures from 2014 Rhinebeck.. 🙂
the sky on the way home at 4:30 was just as beautiful as the morning sky was…
MV Obsession 