The rising sun lights up the windows of a lobster boat tied up at the mouth of the Saco River at Camp Ellis.

Fresh snow clings to a fence along Higgins Beach in Scarborough as the sun rises the day after a winter storm dropped more than 7 inches of snow on southern Maine.

A lobster boat heads out to sea at sunrise off Kennebunkport. Some of the state’s lobstermen are staying out on the water later in the year because of the warm winter weather. The result is that lobster is easy to come by at the market.

The dawning of another day on Forest Lake, where Paula Curcio of Gray was up to greet the sun.

David Forbes of Saco fishes for stripers from the docks at Camp Ellis just before sunrise on a cool October morning.

A lobsterman motors through a channel between islands as he leaves Cape Porpoise Harbor at sunrise in Kennebunkport.

Sunrise colors clouds above Long Pond In Greenville.

Red sky in morning ... sailors may take warning but Scarborough’s Kelly Mull can take delight at this dramatic photo of the dawning of another day at Fort Williams, where every sunrise can be something to behold.

Motorcyclist Gillian Greenwoods and bicyclist Jennifer Morrison, both from Portland, watch the sunrise over Casco Bay from Portland's Eastern Prom during the first day of summer. John Patriquin/StaffPhotographer

An unidentified bird welcomes a new day on Marginal Way in Ogunquit, as captured in this photo by Jean Wallace-Fearon of Ogunquit.

Ann Blanchard of Scarborough captured this dramatic shot of the sunrise at Scarborough Beach looking out toward Cape Elizabeth.

Dinghies are tied up at the ice covered dock at Camp Ellis as the sun comes up. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer

Another day in the paradise of midcoast Maine is dawning, and Kennebunk’s Dolores Choquette was glad she rose early in Rockport to capture this magnificent sunrise over Penobscot Bay.

A lobsterman loads traps onto a trailer at sunrise in Falmouth.