A songbird sings a tune early Monday at Kettle Cove in Cape Elizabeth.
A woman, seen through a rain soaked window, walks down Cumberland Avenue in Portland on a rainy April day.
Melora Coggeshall prepares to empty a barrel of leaves and sticks she collected while cleaning up her flower garden beds at home in Buxton. Melora wanted to uncover her bleeding hearts, lupine, poppies, flycatchers and other plants before an upcoming trip to Scotland.
Maddy Short, a nanny, makes extra-long soap bubbles atop Casco Bay Parking Garage on Tuesday while her young, camera-shy ward watches from out of frame. Short says she creates the bubbles nearly every day of the summer when she's working, but took them out so early ion the season because the weather was so "warm and springlike."
Anne Spelman of Cape Elizabeth and Mary Dumont, left, of Falmouth collect seaweed at Kettle Cove on April 10. The seaweed will be used in a permaculture garden at the Oxford Street Garden in Portland, which is managed by Cultivating Community and helps provide food for food pantries and homeless people.
Little league teams face off on the Eastern Promenade, Portland, on a spring Saturday evening.
Britney Libby and her son Derick Dorais, 5, of Saco take in the blooming daffodils at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco.
Construction workers remain dry as they move about on the site of a three-story office building on Union Wharf during a rainy first week of April.(Photo by Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
Dustin Hines and Jennings Leavell of Brunswick wait for a wave under cloudy skies while kayaking at Higgins Beach in Scarborough on April 4.
Vayle Craig, 4, of Cornish pauses under falling cherry blossoms while walking with her family on Commercial Street, Portland.
A blooming daffodil at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco, if backlit by the sun on May 9.
Marjolaine Whittlesey works on her plot at the Casco Bay Community Garden at the Eastern Prom on a weekend afternoon. With temperatures in the 70s on May 5, conditions were perfect for the gardens' first official work day of the season.
The new buds on a tree at Back Cove add a pop of color as fog rolls across the water on May, 9, 2018.
Yet another rainy spring day in April on Congress St., Portland.
Fog shrouds Mackworth Island in the distance, while 21-month-old Cate Higgins, of Portland, peers through a plastic bubble on playground equipment at Eastern Promenade on Thursday. Grandparents Cate Cookson, upper right, and Dave Bissett, of British Columbia, kept a watchful eye from all sides.
Cindy Barnard of Portland, an amateur fine-art photographer, looks through a viewfinder of a medium-format film camera while capturing the scene at Back Cove on May 9. Fog shrouds the water on a clear and sunny day.
A woman walks her dog in the West End on a foggy Friday evening.
Springtime fog covers Portland on May 4.
From left, Susan Russell, Catherine Bouzianis and Felix enjoy beautiful weather with termpeatures in the 70s on May 5 on the Eastern Prom.
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