The McAlpine children beat the heat by grabbing a book and reading on a hammock in the shade at their home in Waterville on Monda. From left are Jenna, Iain and Audrey.

Judy Richardson, owner of Richardson’s Strawberry farm in Clinton, picks berries for stand sales on Monday. Richardson said the stand is open daily and as berries ripen, the farm will open for pick-your-own later this month.

Louise Alley works in a row of flowering peonies in one of her prolific gardens at her home in Waterville on Monday.

Oakland police officer Tracey Frost holds up some metal that was dredged from the bottom of Messalonskee Lake at the boat landing on Monday.

From left, Lakoda Perkins, Michael Perkins and Kailynne O’Neil added some color and shapes with chalk to a drab sidewalk in Waterville on Sunday.

Bobbie Bellows of the Waterville public works department sweeps leaves and branches after trimming trees overhanging Front Street on a wet Tuesday.

Emma Fogg took advantage of the warm and dry Thursday and went for a dip with friends in Messlonskee Lake in Oakland.

Rick Davis lll operates the tractor as his father Rick Davis ll and son Alex stack hay bales in a field at the Silver Valley farm in New Sharon on Thursday. The farmers were hurrying to beat the next two days of rain.

Gardener Judy Silver prunes some of the flowers on the blooming rhododendron bushes at her home in Waterville on Wednesday.

Kids at Mount Merici Academy in Waterville take part in the school’s traditional “Tootie-ta” skit during an end of the year assembly on Thursday. Sticking out their tongues are, from left, Braelyn Doody, Michael Achorn and Briana Veilleux.