Siena LaMonica, 3, of Augusta, runs pulling a kite, which her father and grandfather, center, helped her launch, across Augusta’s Capitol Park on a recent sunny afternoon.

Tonya Gould, left, tries to get her seven-month-old son Briton Barnaby to look at photographer Diana Griggs, center. Her husband and fellow photographer Dennis Griggs helps Gould get her son to look up.

Heading back towards the Kennebec River, Chris Crittenden, left, and Shanna Wheelock, both of Lubec, paddle under the granite arch of bridge the carries Water Street traffic over Bond Brook one afternoon this week in Augusta.

Maya McCoy, left, and Brent McCoy, on a unicycle, juggle flaming torches in the finale of their “Secret Circus” performance on Wednesday afternoon in the Johnson Hall mini-park in downtown Gardiner. It was the first in this year’s Lively Lunch performance series held noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays through August. Next week’s show features […]

Corrie Donahue, of Monmouth, left, paint’s a pink and purple cat on the face of Gwen Lewis, 3 of Winthrop, at the Raspberry Festival last weekend at the East Winthrop Baptist Church. The festival featured pies, barbecue sauce and other food with raspberries along with pony rides.

A pair of small sailboats ply the waters of Minnehonk Lake on as the sun begins to set on Thursday evening in Mount Vernon.

Vicki Tottle, of Limerick, one of the many volunteers hanging some of the over 700 quilts, that will be on display over the weekend, Wednesday afternoon at the Augusta Civic Center. The 34th annual Maine Quilts show runs through Sunday and also includes workshops, exhibits and vendors. For more information check www.mainequilts.org.

Peter Dube, Sr., of Augusta, holds onto his grandson Peter Dube III as they watch oxen pulling at the Pittston Fair on Thursday afternoon. The fair runs through Sunday and the fairgrounds are on Route 194 near Mast Road.