Andrea Bachynsky collects flowers in the patch she cultivates at Crooked Door Farm in Whitefield on Tuesday. The owner of Honeysuckle Way Flowers sells blossoms at farmer markets, for special events such as weddings and through a community supported agriculture subscription. Bachynsky’s crop was so bountiful she had to pick flowers make room for more.
Buster Paquet, left, and Vicki Hawes paddle on the still waters of North Pond in Smithfield.
CAP.cutline_standalone:Kevin Frankhauser loads hay into the milking parlor Tuesday at Stan Tibbetts’ dairy farm in Whitefield. Farmers cut and picked second hay crops in 80-degree weather across Maine. Frankhauser and Caleb Grady were moving bales that were dry enough to stack inside.
Kids in the Madison area have been flocking to Roy’s Inflatable Water Park on Main Street to cool off this summer. Kyle LePage of Smithfield flies down the popular Blue Crush water slide, one of seven slides at the business. LePage said he favors the Shipwreck slide. “Lots of kids go on it cause it’s really twisted,” LePage said. His pal Jack Fitzpatrick of Skowhegan said,” It’s awesome and really fast."
Kevin Miller checks the alignment of a row of granite markers Wednesday in one of the soldiers’ lots at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Augusta.
Motorcyclists accompany Tom L’Italien on Wednesday down Water Street in Augusta at the end of his bicycle tour to raise awareness of military veteran suicides.
CAP.cutline_standalone:Andy Baker, right, drills a truss Sunday that Pat Rioux secured to the peak from a ladder that his brother, Paul Rioux, held. Pat Rioux is building a horse shelter with three stables at his Monmouth home with the help of his brothers, Paul, Richard, David and Roger, and their neighbor, Baker.
Richard Moreau and his wife Beatrice Moreau chat with Maine State Police Detective Sgt. Mark Holmqvist as the search for Kimberly Moreau, missing since 1986, continued Friday in Canton.
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