Kelsey Stinneford, of Wayne, leads her horse beneath overcast skies Tuesday, down a lane in Wayne while riding back to the Taylor Farm in Fayette, where she stables the steed. A competitive rider on the dressage team at Post University in Connecticut, Stinneford said the wet conditions do not deter her from riding. “This is how I choose to spend my spring break,” she said.

Lewis Armstrong, of Augusta, walks through Memorial Circle in Augusta on Monday during a snow shower.

Anne Trenholm, of Wholesome Holmstead in Winthrop, right, speaks with people about the cheese and beef that her family raises, on Sunday during an agricultural fair in Hallowell. The annual, community-supported agriculture exchange offered an opportunity for customers to learn where and how food is grown in the area.

Maine Department of Transportation worker Keith Bates erects a railing on a platform, attached to a pier suspending the bridge spanning Cobbossee Stream, on Bridge Street in Gardiner Monday. Crews will be replacing concrete in the pier for the next four to six weeks, according to bridge maintenance supervisor George James.

Airyn Jewett, left, and Kate Baker, both 14, haul a sled full of wood blocks they chiseled out of the Kennebec River Sunday, while removing shacks at Baker’s Smelt Camps in Pittston. Friends, neighbors and employees helped proprietor Mike Baker remove the fishing shacks, rented to anglers by the tide, after the ice became brittle over the weekend. The wood that balanced the shacks over race holes for the winter.

Pat, left, and Jon Bailey carry buckets of clippings and ashes Wednesday through the 11-acre woodlot behind their home in Litchfield. The retired couple have a dozen loop trails through their woods, which they explored on snowshoes while searching for a place to deposit the refuse.

Isaiah Chase chucks a snowball Tuesday for his hound at his family’s farm in Whitefield. Chase had just finished retrieving hay for the herd of cows and feeding his pair of pulling steers with the dog.

Augusta firefighters tow colleagues off the Kennebec River Tuesday in Augusta, during the department’s annual ice rescue training. The firefighters practice retrieving either an injured or stranded person trapped on the ice with dry suits and a floating sled, according to Battalion Chief Scott Dunbar.

Don Horne, right, and Richard Antanavich re-assemble the slide rails of a 1972 Arctic Cow Thursday in the Mount Vernon barn the vintage snowmobile racers use as a clubhouse. The men rebuild vintage snow machines to compete in races, at speeds up to 50 miles per hour, across New England. Cold weather this week kept them in the shop instead of riding the trails, Antanavich said.

Greg Tisdale, of AC Towing in West Gardiner, jump starts a car Wednesday on Water Street in Gardiner amid single digit temperatures. “It’s real busy,” Tisdale said. “Over a dozen jump starts and tire changes today.”