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Kyra Steck
Well, it’s been another week of weather. Pleasant and spring-like one day, then back to winter the next. I have seen people in shorts already, then back to wearing down jackets. It’s a good thing we New Englanders like to talk about the weather. It certainly seems to be an endless topic for discussion.
Forsythia is starting to bloom all over town, in wildly bursting tangles or in more sedate, neatly pruned bushes. The early star magnolia in front of the Olsen house is making its annual showing. Patti Linn’s yard has bulbs of every variety and color; hyacinths, tulips, daffodils in drifts of pink and yellow, lavender and blue. Primroses are just budding and showing color; many gardens have hardy plantings of them. The English primrose, or cowslip, is such a pretty pale yellow, and is reputed to be deer and rabbit resistant.
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Online art reception at the library Parisian Cafe Artist Sandy Bernat Rooftop Trupti Mannina
Throughout the month of April, the West Tisbury library’s Virtual Gallery will feature “Table for Two The Café Series.” This exhibit includes the work of local artists Kanta Lipsky, Valentine Estabrook, and Sandy Bernat, as well as artist Trupti Mannina from Boulder, Colo. Join the library for a virtual reception on Sunday, April 11, from 5 to 6 pm. Meet the artists and learn more about their work with oil paint, soft acrylics, and handmade paper art.
“There are four artists involved in this show. We have all traveled together internationally at different times, and enjoyed our times in cafes,” Kanta Lipsky says in a press release from the library. “From the Vineyard we have myself, Valentine Estabrook, and Sandy Bernat. Joining us from Boulder, Colo., is Trupti Mannina.