To plant a garden is to grow happiness, and in times of uncertainty and stress, say during a pandemic, who couldn’t use the help? After all, if you can plant a seed and watch it turn into something as beautiful as a flower or useful as a vegetable, what can’t you achieve? Scores of studies […]
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A cold but scenic morning in Maine: See these photos
When the sun rose Tuesday morning, it was very cold in southern Maine and a perfect morning to see sea smoke. Sea smoke is the fog that forms when very cold air, usually below 10 degrees, moves over warmer seawater. It causes the water to evaporate and produce steam. (The fog we usually see comes […]
Scenes from Halloween 2019
See what our photographers saw in Portland and elsewhere.
Gallery: Our photographers share a parting look at Maine’s fall foliage
It’s past peak and the leaves are falling. Before finishing the raking, take a last look at the glorious foliage, photographed by Press Herald photographers in October. “I kick at the leaves of maples Reds of seventy different shades, yellow Like old paper; and poplar leaves, fragile and pale; And elm leaves, flags of a […]