Last weekend’s cloud formations were fabulous.

It is late August, often a season of molds and weeds on Martha’s Vineyard farms.

It’s either my advancing age, the fact that I work outdoors, or climate change, but it’s simply too darned hot.

Every farmer has a favorite crop. Some are reluctant to name just one, like a mother who does not want to play favorites.

Prize-winning vegetables and flower arrangements, the buzz of the chainsaw as woodsmen competed, Best in Show for man’s best friend — notes on the fair from Gazette staff.

Hundreds of fair-goers streamed onto the grounds off Panhandle Road in West Tisbury for day two of the 158th annual Agricultural Society Fair. The fair runs through Sunday.