Island Light: Summer’s Herald
Passing Chappy ferries in the Edgartown harbor channel.
Passing Chappy ferries in the Edgartown harbor channel.
Brock Callen catches the wind in Sengie.
Brock Callen catches the wind in Sengie.
Rob Douglas digs in.
Rob Douglas digs in.
Green heron peers in to the waters at Head of the Lagoon.
Green heron peers in to the waters at Head of the Lagoon.
Cicilio Rosa Neto takes his beloved ox, Chilmark, for a stroll along Beach Road.
Cicilio Rosa Neto takes his beloved ox, Chilmark, for a stroll along Beach Road.
Puddle Duck ashore in Vineyard Haven.
Puddle Duck ashore in Vineyard Haven.
Mild temperatures brought sailors out.
Mild temperatures brought sailors out.
Vineyard Haven's fleet of sailboats.
Vineyard Haven's fleet of sailboats.
Terns in Edgartown.
Terns in Edgartown.
Ferry Island Home motors in to her Island port.
Ferry Island Home motors in to her Island port.
Ferry Woods Hole in Oak Bluffs.
Ferry Woods Hole in Oak Bluffs.
Bunting graces the Mansion House porch for holiday weekend.
Bunting graces the Mansion House porch for holiday weekend.
Willet.
Willet.
Low tide at Eel Pond in Edgartown.
Low tide at Eel Pond in Edgartown.
Flowers wash ashore after Tisbury's March to the Sea.
Flowers wash ashore after Tisbury's March to the Sea.
Final days coming for these.
Final days coming for these.
Goslings feed with mother on the shore.
Goslings feed with mother on the shore.
Katama Airfield.
Katama Airfield.
June is the month of bursting colors and beguiling aromas, and now we are on the threshold of summer. Memorial Day often is a truer marker of the Vineyard's summer, and truer yet are the warm days and cool nights of early June. Sailboats glide in the distance on the blue depths of Nantucket Sound and the gaudy good cheer of colorful kiteboarders dart in the air above our beaches.