There was joy in Mudville for Griffin Smith, 5, when he found a mud puddle in front of home plate on the Eastern Prom softball field in Portland. He just had to jump into it while playing with his sister and grandparents on Tuesday. Mud season is a rite of spring in Maine.
Love, and snow, were in the air when this couple embraced on Dana Street in Portland on April 8. The thing with spring is, you never know when it might snow.
A sure sign of spring is when flowers bloom. On Wednesday at the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco, the daffodils were blooming for those who walked by.
Danielle Morin wears a blossom from a rhododendron while working at O'Donal's Nursery on April 23, a cold and rainy afternoon.
A wood frog rests on the surface of the pond after being transported by a volunteer on April 14 in Cumberland. Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust hosts the annual community event to assist frogs and salamanders when they cross Range Road from Rines Forest to CCLT's Frog Pond and Salamander Swamp.
The Full Worm Moon rises at the vernal equinox, which marks the end of winter and start of spring. It is named after the earthworms that emerge in spring. Jamie Flaherty pauses to watch with his dog Moxie at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth.
Colorful anemones make up a bouquet that Carolyn Snell puts together at the Snell Family Farm in Buxton Friday. The bouquets were made for the first outdoor farmers' market of the year in Portland on Saturday.
An overflowing tributary of the Saco River flows through a stand of saplings in Limington.
The first of April has long been the traditional opening day of fishing season but Maine's southernmost counties have allowed year round fishing since 2010. Bruce Hidell, who caught three nice-sized salmon, releases this one back into the Songo River.
Forsythia blooms brighten a spring day at the Snell Family Farm in Buxton.
With the arrival of longer and warmer days, chickens lay eggs more regularly, typically one per day.
Snow one day, jump in the lake the next? Sam Harlocker of Portland, Rachel Stewart of Portland and Alexander Ronald of Lake Forest, Ill., took a spring dip Thursday at the East End Boat Launch in Portland. They got out of the water quickly but stated it wasn’t their first dip of the season. To each his own.
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