Albania Girl

Sometimes all I have to do is sit on my porch and interesting people come to me.


"I'm from Albania and have been on the island for four days. I came over to work - I work at Relaxation Spa - and I have friends here. I speak Albanian, Italian, Spanish, and English, but I'm a little confused because I've been studying Italian so I've been thinking in Italian. At home I'm a student, studying political science. I also like to write because I'm shy, and when I write, my emotions come out."

Saturday Night Downtown

"I work at the hospital, I'm trying to be a nurse. I also work at Stefanie Wolf Designs and I'm a tuna fisherman. I'm like most islanders - I do many things. I've lived here year-round for nine years."


"We're out celebrating summer."


"My favorite flavor [today] is cotton candy."


Bluesman Johnny Hoy, pleasing the crowd at the Colonial Inn complex (I'm sure it hasn't been called the Colonial Inn for many years. I have no idea what it is now.)

Street, June 25, 2014

Clare and Irwin, with Stella. Clare is originally from Co. Tyrone, Ireland but has been living in London for twenty years. Clare was more interested in my photographing Stella, her large Irish Setter, but I talked her into letting me photograph her (and her husband, Irwin, whom she beckoned from down the street, on the phone with a business call. "But you're on vacation." "Yeah, I know."). Clare, Irwin and Stella are on the island for five weeks.


I also ran into my Green Avenue neighbors - Justin and Stefanie and their four daughters who are here for the week at the Marchese house: Kaelah, Marabel, Lucy, and Neve. It's been fun having kids in the neighborhood. There are times, between my grandkids and the neighbor children, when my yard looks and sounds like a school yard, with swinging, running, screaming, digging in the dirt; all the things children ought to be doing, somewhat of an aberration among the pristine and perfectly landscaped and mostly child-free Edgartown yards.


Mike is back in town, holding court on Main Street. Tonight's selections included Ring Them Bells (that he learned from me on my porch last week), and Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz.

People and Colors, June 3

My friend Becky came over tonight and we went for a walk, with our cameras, downtown. Honestly, I'm so tired of passing person after person on the sidewalk who stares straight ahead, silently. From now on, no matter what, I'm saying hello. Come on, people - what is this, Zombie land?




"Wow, Do you always wear colors like these? What's the occasion? Are you a Buddhist?" "No, this is just what I do. I'm from Boston, here on business."














Mike is here on vacation, staying at his family's Campground cottage, and was determined to catch a scup for supper. A Church of God pastor, Mike's pastoral work involves teaching inner city teenagers to read, kids who are part of the fallout of the collapsed economy. Mike's been on sabbatical for the past four months. "I miss my kids".


"I will make you fishers of men."