Images: One of the best of Maine’s summer time
Though this summer time has seen unpredictable climate with document highs and what could have felt like limitless stretches of rain, there have been loads of alternatives for Mainers to get out for some enjoyable within the solar. With the autumn solstice is rapidly approaching, we’re nonetheless holding on to the previous couple of weeks of summer time with a few of our favourite photographs (to date!) from BDN photographers and contributors. Click on every photograph to broaden it to full measurement.
Willamina Sarnacki-Wooden, 11, canoes on Daicey Pond on July 27, in Baxter State Park. Credit score: Courtesy of Aislinn Sarnacki
Harold Furrow salutes because the 2023 Memorial Day parade passes by him on Predominant Avenue in Bangor on Monday, Could 29, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Justin Kirk of of the Dirigio Classic Base Ball Membership pitches to a batter throughout a recreation in Waldoboro on Sunday, Aug. 13. 2023, performed by 1864-era guidelines. Below the old-time guidelines, there have been no gloves and pitches have been underhand, solely. Credit score: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Plague Dad performs on Wharf Avenue in Portland on Saturday, July 22, 2023. Conceived in the course of the pandemic, Plague Dad was simply added to this 12 months’s A.R.M.E. Bootcamp Pageant lineup. Credit score: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Mason Kundera of Orrington feeds Yeti, his shepherd-hound combine, ice cream to chill off on Thursday, July 13, 2023, in downtown Millinocket. Kundera was on the town visiting household. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Ukulele gamers spill out of the Eastland Lodge and into Portland’s Congress Sq. on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. The flash mob of about 80 musicians was organized by Maine-based nonprofit Ukuleles Heal the World. Credit score: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Hunter Perkins, 12, of Glenburn jumps into the Orono Municipal Pool whereas swimming together with his brother Hudson, 11, on Monday, July 17, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
The Bangor Fourth of July Parade marches via downtown Predominant Avenue on Thursday, July 4, 2023. Credit score: Lindsay Putnam / BDN
Fred Steinberg, 25, sells scorching canines in Portland on Thursday, Aug.10, 2023, within the spot the place Mark Gatti bought them for 36 years. Steinberg remembers shopping for them from Gatti when he was in highschool. Credit score: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
The York wildcats have a good time their 2-1 victory over Nokomis within the Class B softball championship recreation Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at Coffin Area in Brewer. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Jaxston Davis, 7, enjoys swimming together with his mother Sarah Rittal within the Dakin Pool on Friday, June 23, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Nokomis’ Raegan King dives for a fly ball in the course of the Class B state championship recreation in opposition to Nokomis on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at Coffin Area in Brewer. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Devon St. Louis, 19, retains an eye fixed on swimmers on the Dakin Pool on Friday, June 23, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Shakur Smalls (#3) makes a catch in opposition to Zaheem Crawford-Patterson (#15) throughout UMaine’s first scrimmage of the season at Morse Area on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Jordan Sherman (left), 20, and Kallie Anderson, 18, of Liberty, giggle as they whip round on the Scrambler on the Bangor State Truthful on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
The Quarry, a effective eating restaurant within the Piscataquis County city of Monson, gained a James Beard Award for Excellent Hospitality early in June. Chef and proprietor Marilou “Lulu” Ranta reveals off her medal, which she by no means dreamed of successful, she mentioned Thursday, June 8, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Stephanie Lage-Lichko (left), 22, and Sydney Brown, 21, leap off of a boulder into Hurd Pond as their good friend Kellie Armstrong watches Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Connor Daszkiewicz (left), 7, and his good friend Parker Information, 7, each of Rome, zip down Smokey’s Tremendous Slide on opening day of the Bangor State Truthful Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Credit score: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Hattie Practice cuts kelp from a thousand-foot develop line aboard her father’s fishing boat on Bay on Monday, Could 29, 2023. Credit score: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
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Leela Stockley is an alumna of the College of Maine. She was raised in northern Maine, and loves her cat Wesley, her pet Percy and staying energetic within the Maine outside.
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