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Summer came this morning. The wind was out of the east which can make for a cool and to my thinking nice summer, but tonight it feels and sounds more

There is rumbling off in the distance and the day has shifted from sun to gray and back again. It feels warmer than it probably is, then the wind blows.

The days are rushing headlong toward the solstice, there are beach roses in the dunes along the Neck Road and wild, invasive but oh-so-beautiful white multiflora roses cascading everywhere. The

The first rounds of blooming yellow are behind us, the shad did return in a brief assault on anyone with allergies, the apple trees are bright white spots and the

My memory depends upon connections, not so unusual I think, but it helps me align events, the shad for which my first pale puppy was named right around Financial Town

Back when we had no idea where the coronavirus would lead, only that it was real and serious and we needed to hit “pause,” we looked around at the Historical,

Six years ago this past Monday, I was headed for an Historic District meeting. It was spring, a bit after six-thirty, the light was golden, the land luminous. The sun

It is April vacation on Block Island.

The ocean is not stunningly blue today, the horizon is not sharp, the sand isn’t peacefully settled, the sun is not casting a shadow of a utility pole making it

We are in the greening time of year, and like every other late March there is a day when one spot is more than washed with color, more than splashed