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For gardeners, it's tilling the ground anew. For beachgoers, it's the first bracing dip of the year. For anglers, it's the first bite from a striper along Maine's warming coast. And for the Press Herald's photographers, it's a little of everything as they capture spring across southern Maine.
"“You’ll never get lightning in the bottle again,” Owner says. “It’ll never be what it was. But we can pay homage to it, and we can try to live up to the lore."
Blue skies were smiling and bluebirds were singing for Irving Berlin, but blue is actually nature's rarest color. Blue flowers are less than 10% of the world's 300,000 flowering plant species. Even some of the few animals and plants that look blue don't actually contain the color. Blue jays and Morpho butterflies, for example, have developed unique features that distort the reflection of light to appear blue. Humanity has been obsessed with blue for thousands of years, from ancient Egypt when blue, the color of the heavens, was used in temples, ceramics and statues and to decor...
These 31 people were arrested in Niagara County over the past week for various offenses.
Beware that some national parks are much more popular than others, and you'll need to make a reservation if you want to visit.