Debbie Palmer mows the lawn under a colorful flowering cherry tree on Burleigh Street in Waterville on Monday.

T.J. Perkins and his sister Valerie race through a field of dandelion flowers at the Field of Dreams park in Unity on Saturday.

Vassalboro Community School student Mathew Klepser, 8, points to a giant bubble at the Colby Cares barbecue at the college on Thursday.

The Tim Giroux residence in Vassalboro got a facelift with new cedar shingle siding on Wednesday. Giroux, right, works with John McLean, on ground, and Bruce Noel on the 1840s home.

Fourth-grade students at Albert Hall School in Waterville release tiny salmon fry into the Kennebec River on Thursday. The class raised 200 fish from eggs as part of the “Fish Friend” program of the Atlantic Salmon Federation. Releasing fish, from left, are Logan Gilman, Gigi Garza, Gavin Robinson and Mckayla Nelson.

Colby College’s Olin Science building is reflected in a wall of glass panes as workers use a crane to install one on the outside of the art museum expansion project on Tuesday.

Though it was cold and rainy outside Bernice Guerin, left, and Gayle Labreque stayed comfortable plucking wilted petals off geraniums growing inside a warm greenhouse at Hilltop Farm in Fairfield on a wet Tuesday. The company sells flowers and vegetable seedlings.

HIGH WIRE: Brian Trayhan of Yankee Communications is seen through utility wires as he descends from a tower 80-feet above the ground on the Somerset County Superior Courthouse in Skowhegan on Monday. The Benton company is installing equipment for wireless radio connections between town municipal buildings.

Tony Poutin of Foster’s Tree Service in Sidney can be seen at lower right cutting branches off a dying silver maple tree that was taken down off Front Street in Waterville on Thursday.

Ryker Olson points out the next tractor he wants to sit on to his father, David, during the 52nd anniversary open house at Ingraham Equipment company in Knox on Wednesday. More than 600 people toured the business that sells equipment for farming and gardening. The event also had free breakfast and lunch.