A drake Eastern Bluebird scours an apple tree Wednesday morning at the Ford and Susan Stevenson Farm in Wayne. The family stopped parking cars near a bird box the mating pair of thrushes selected this spring for a nest, according to Susan Stevenson. “He kept attacking his reflection in the mirrors,” she said.

Muriel Plummer, 90, inspects a dandelion root Tuesday that she harvested in the garden at her farm in Weeks Mills. Since retiring from Hussey’s two years ago, Plummer is staying busy picking produce and cultivating flowers. She likes to steam the roots of dandelions and serve them with biscuits. “I have enough for myself,” she […]

Eli Hopkins is accompanied by his parents, Carla Hopkins, left, and Victoria Eleftheriou, while taking a cruise Monday at a pond near their home in Mount Vernon. The couple purchased the boy a kayak for his seventh birthday on Tuesday and decided to make a splash a day early because of temperatures in the 80s. 

Members of the St. Andrews Society of Maine prepare to march with flags into Christ Church Episcopal in Gardiner during services Sunday. The Scottish heritage group performed a Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan, or blessing of clans, with parishioners of the church, accompanied by drums and bagpipes.

Kera McIntosh, of Farmingdale, photographs ducks Wednesday with her 5-year-old son, Logan, at the boat landing on the Kennebec River in Hallowell. The pair were playing beneath overcast skies that are forecast to persist until Friday, when sun and milder temperatures are predicted.

Timber framer Nate Clark saws a mortise Monday in a hemlock girt for the barn at the Major Reuben Couburn House in Pittston. Clark’s firm, Pownalborough Restoration, is reparing the 1849 structure next to the home that dates to 1765 the Department of Conservation has been repairing. 

Maggie, left, and Laurie Barron, 8, are escorted home from school Monday by their father, Bill, during a downpour in South Gardiner. The eight-year-old twins may need the dome later in the week as a mix of sun and rain is forecast.

Ely Tiba, 4, collects a chocolate egg Sunday beneath a tree in Capitol Park while hunting for treats from the Easter bunny with her sister, Zoe, 18 months. The siblings, of Quebec City, scoured the park during a respite from driving home from a vacation in Portland with their parents. 

Robin Chapman holds her granddaughter, 2-year-old Emilee Chapman, on Monday in the field of flags arranged by the Maine Autism Alliance at Capitol Park in Augusta. The display served to remind Mainers of the approximately 2,800 children in the state diagnosed with Autism on World Autism Day. The Albion pair visited the display to show […]