Artists have said that the light on Martha’s Vineyard make the island an ideal place to paint. At no time is the light more clear and crisp than these golden days of September. The treetops sparkle with or without a morning wash of dew. Skies are blue, the clouds puffy as popcorn.

“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in a broken world,” wrote Mary Oliver. Indeed, Mary Oliver.

There was a painterly scene the other day where Alan Healy’s sheep nibbled on the grassy vacant lot next to the Wassermans on Music Street. Sunsets so vivid they turn the very air peachy pink. Over on Old County Road, another field has a gauzy layer of egg yolk yellow on the tops of the grasses, thanks to the goldenrod that has been thriving so profusely. With little concern for allergy sufferers, the pretty weed is enjoying a flourish of showmanship. Up close, at the edge of the pavement, the goldenrod bursts with yellow blooms as if it were welcome here. Achoo!

At the library this month, a pair of West Tisbury artists are exhibiting their exceptional talents. Beth Parker has hung her acrylic paintings, which she calls landscapes. To me, they are mostly space-scapes, water-scapes or garden-scapes. She paints basic forms, bits of vines, floating amoebas and other organisms, an eyeball here and there, zigs and zags, all adrift in a pastel sky.

Daisy Kimberley, showing along with Beth, has used her oversized crochet hooks to re-create an equally fantastical collection of people, plants and animals. You may have seen her life-sized figure of Nancy Luce, the chicken lady, in her crocheted rocking chair, at the library’s front desk last year. Nancy Luce is back, her crocheted chickens on her crocheted lap. Also on display are half a dozen women, three-quarter size, hand-stitched from eyeballs to fingertips in elegant gowns. They are again all crocheted but with bits of silky fabric to accentuate the fashions. But unlike Nancy Luce, these girls look a little tipsy,

Phyllis Meras is home after an unexpected helicopter ride to Mass General. After four days in the hospital, Phyllis brought a new pacemaker home with her. She is going well, walking her usual route to pick up her newspaper.

The island is mourning the loss of two highly-respected doctors here: Dr. Timothy Guiney and Dr. Michael Jacobs, both of whom served the community for many years.

Saturday, Sept. 20, is birthday celebration day for Lanny McDowell and Marilyn Hollinshead. Sunday, the 21st, is Trip Barnes’ birthday. Happy birthday to the talented artist Daily Kimberly on Monday, Sept. 22, to the talented writer Nikki Patton on Tuesday, Sept. 23, and on Wednesday, Sept. 24, to the inimitable Jeff Madison.

Congratulations and happy wedding anniversary to Amy and David Crawford on Saturday, Sept. 21.