In photos: Spring is in the air

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Photo by Ben McCanna

A woman takes photos of Casco Bay while standing next to a blooming crabapple tree near the Eastern Promenade Trail in Portland on May 11.

Photo by Ben McCanna

Tulips bloom on a hillside at Fort Allen Park in Portland.

Photo by Ben McCanna

Leo Sevelowitz, 6, of Windham, climbs on a sea wall at East End Beach in Portland on May 11.

Photo by Ben McCanna

Norman Huard of Portland waters newly planted seeds at the North Street Community Garden. Huard estimates he’s been gardening on the plot for more than 10 years. “So long I forget,” he joked. “I find it very relaxing. I get up in the morning and take it easy.”

Photo by Derek Davis

Sweet woodruff blankets a garden bed in Scarborough.

Photo by Ben McCanna

Gulls surround the lobster boat Cora Pearl as it departs a berth at Custom House Wharf in Portland on May 9.

Photo by Gregory Rec

A paddleboarder leaves the water at Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk on in early May. Warming water temperatures in spring draw back surfers who don’t take to the water in winter.

Photo by Derek Davis

A bumblebee hovers in flowering lupines in a wild garden in early June.

Photo by Ben McCanna

Newly sprouted leaves frame dogs and their owners at Portland’s East End Beach.

Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette

Cassandra Pateneaude of Portland walks with her dog Yoni past a tree in full bloom in Deering Oaks Park in mid-May.

Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette

Sarah Seelman of Rochester, NY carries her dog Finn as she explores along the East End Beach on a cloudy, gray day. Early June in southern Maine was mostly overcast and rainy with chilly temperatures.

Photo by Derek Davis

Lenore Coffey-Reeves, left, 3, of South Portland and Anouk Dor, 4, of Portland play with water from a drain pipe at Willard Beach in South Portland. Temperatures went into the eighties over Memorial Day weekend.

Photo by Derek Davis

Abby Wardwell, 14, left, and Camilla Evon, 14, both of Cape Elizabeth prepare to leap into the Spurwink River on June 6, when the sun broke through after a week of rain and overcast skies.

Photo by Ben McCanna

Matthew Day of Portland aerates soil at his plot at Casco Bay Community Garden on the Eastern Promenade on May 15. Day, who has been gardening at this location since 2014, was planning to plant lettuce and peas after turning the soil.

Photo by Derek Davis

Melania Porta, 5, of Freeport hands some dandelions to her father, Joe, after picking them in a field at North Yarmouth Academy in early May.

Photo by Derek Davis

Mike O’Flinn of South Portland makes a turn in shallow water while kitesurfing off of Ferry Beach on May 30.

Photo by Ben McCanna

It was a stars and stripers day for James Day of Casco who is sporting a star-spangled sweatshirt while fishing for striped bass on Maine State Pier in Portland as gulls flock around an incoming lobster boat, the Helen Marie.

Photo by Derek Davis

New growth stretches out from a “Crimson Queen” Japanese maple. ]

Photo by Ben McCanna

Allen Del Rosario stands among the dandelion stems at Bug Light Park in South Portland while flying a two-line foil stunt kite with a 50-foot tail. The 64-year-old Portlander said he started flying kites in 1996 when he received a stunt kite as a gift. Now he has so many kites he doesn’t “even want to count,” he said. The best aspects of kite flying are entertaining onlookers and helping inexperienced kite flyers learn the hobby, he added.

Photo by Derek Davis

Children run to the Spurwink River for their first swim of the season on June 6.

Photo by Derek Davis

A Siberian iris blooms amongst a bed of wild lupin in Scarborough.

Photo by Ben McCanna

Liliane Nzojibwami of Portland strikes a pose while testing the water temperature at Willard Beach in South Portland in early May. “It’s very cold, but it’s beautiful to see the sea and it’s nice to be outside,” she said. “The sun is here.”