Snow coats the sand at an entrance to the beach in Old Orchard Beach. In the off season, the tourist crowds of summer are gone and the town goes into a semi-hibernation.
A layer of road salt covers bricks, and snow mounds up at a curb near the closed arcade at Palace Playland.
The bricks of Old Orchard Beach's town square are covered in a thick layer of ice and the shops alongside the square are closed for the season.
Snow coats the ramp up to The Pier in Old Orchard Beach.
A gull carries a frozen piece of food in its beak while walking among the pilings of the Old Orchard Beach pier.
A ship moves through Saco Bay as snow coats the beach at Old Orchard Beach. In the off season, the tourist crowds of summer are gone and the town goes into a semi-hibernation.
A high fence and closed doors at Palace Playland are signs that it's the off season in Old Orchard Beach.
Snow coats the edge of a clam shell on the beach.
Windblown snow covers a bench in Old Orchard Beach.
Snow piles up in front of a bench next to the Palace Playland arcade.
Windblown snow covers a piece of driftwood on the beach in Old Orchard Beach and a razor clam leaves a trail and provides a spot of color.
Ice coats the pilings of the pier in Old Orchard Beach and snow blankets the beach.
Tables stand stacked near the pier in Old Orchard Beach as light snow falls in January, before the brunt of the winter arrived.
Ice coats bricks near the Old Orchard Beach pier.
Footprints in snow are the only sign of human activity on an empty beach by the pier in Old Orchard Beach.
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