katie's view

View on the West Side

"If it's not warm enough to run around naked eating ice cream, then it's not warm enough." I wonder whether there is a vast government conspiracy to fudge the weather forecast for holiday weekends so that people will go away and spend money. I have wondered this for a while, and almost every Memorial Day weekend proves worse than forecast. This one was no exception, with days of sunny bliss forecast and boatloads of eager shirtsleeved tourists arriving on the island only to be frozen, rained on and blown to bits. Yet, as always on Block Island, the beautiful moments made you forget the rest.