Island Light: Moving Forward
January light at Arrowhead Farm.
January light at Arrowhead Farm.
Columns at Chilmark Church are stark white in winter.
Columns at Chilmark Church are stark white in winter.
At rest on the shore of Edgartown Great Pond.
At rest on the shore of Edgartown Great Pond.
Angle of the sun lights up the saltmarsh.
Angle of the sun lights up the saltmarsh.
Ferry Martha's Vineyard rounds her turn into her Island port.
Ferry Martha's Vineyard rounds her turn into her Island port.
Low tide in the Lagoon.
Low tide in the Lagoon.
There is a better way to look at this new season. The sun in winter will now turn back toward the Northern Hemisphere, toward the Vineyard.
Since New Year's, the Island is enjoying five more minutes of sunlight than on the first day of winter. Winter blocks the call of seasons just past. Its purpose now is to move us forward toward those days of thaw, toward the arrival of spring.