Deb Stahler, left, paddles as Claudia Sait rigs the fishing rods for an excursion Monday on Echo Lake in Mt. Vernon. The retired former colleagues said they like to catch the fish but always release them from the side of the boat.
Winthrop firefighters extinguish flames emerging from a house Tuesday on Prescott Road in Manchester.
Linda McKee tills the plot for the garden Sunday at her family's farm in Wayne. McKee, a retired teacher, said the labor was a minor cost for the dividend of fresh vegetables.
A Snapping Turtle approaches the center line of Vaughan Road on Wednesday in Hallowell. Reptiles, amphibians as well as amphibians — such as deer — are all traveling down roads in Maine in late spring.
The hot day on Monday brought kids out to the beach and into the water at the park on Messalonskee Lake in Oakland. Xavier Peterson spent a lot of time in the water perfecting his swimming strokes.
On a hot Thursday the Alfond Municipal Pool in Waterville was filled with simmers, loungers and a boy doing stretches in the water.
Kim Cheah, foreground, and Desiree Kelley go through yoga exercises at School Street Yoga in Waterville on Sunday. The popular center is celebrating a 10-year anniversary this year. Yoga and meditation is conducted in the former Christian Scientist church chapel.
Nathan Landry holds the hand of his son, Levi, 4, as his wife, Jamie Landry, carries their younger child, Ethan, 20 months old, as they walk along Temple Street in downtown Waterville on Wednesday. The Benton family likes to park in Winslow and walk across the Two Cent Bridge to Holy Cannoli's on Main Street in Waterville for a cookie.
Bishop McKechnie, left, and David Hopkins talk about the Unity Pride flag Thursday at their shop, Merkaba Sol, in downtown Augusta. The duffel bags hold sections of the 22-by-1,650-foot-long River of Pride rainbow flag. McKechnie started out making a shorter version of the rainbow flag for the Portland Pride parade in 2006. They've been invited to bring both flags to the New York City Pride parade on Sunday.
Tim Edwards, left, and Nolan Brann work high on a lift painting 168 Water St. on Thursday in downtown Augusta.
Taylor Road guitarists Joel Jolicoeur, left, and Lenny Goodine perform during a concert Wednesday in Augusta's Waterfront Park. It was the second show in the Waterfront Wednesday concert series. Shows take place at 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 7. Next week's show, on July 3, will take place in Mill Park.
Lauren Pickford holds up a fragment of variable milfoil Friday that she scooped up with a net as Sharon Mann, center, works in North Bay of Great Pond in Belgrade.
Chad Glidden, left, of the Waterville Parks and Recreation department, attempts to distract co-worker Dallas Hutchinson, throwing a beanbag while holding a plate of food, during a game of cornhole at RiverWalk at Head of Falls in Waterville on Thursday. The competition was part of the annual City of Waterville employee lunch.
Donald Cote feeds one of the seven fawns currently in his care at the Wildlife Care Center in Vassalboro on Friday.
A sudden torrential rainstorm with lightning and thunder blasts the Kennebec River on Sunday as two people in a canoe get marooned on the water in Waterville.
Dairy cows from Rainbow Valley Farm hold up traffic on West River Road in Sidney on Thursday as they cross from the barn to the pastures to dine and to answer the perennial question: Is the grass really greener there?
Messalonskee's Bjorn Brickett, right, tags out Sacopee Valley's Dylan Capano on Thursday during 12U Cal Ripken state tournament in Sidney.
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