Just weeks after a Scarborough fisherman garnered attention for catching one orange lobster, a Portland fisherman hauled in three from one trap, according to Harbor Fish Market.
Just weeks after a Scarborough fisherman garnered attention for catching one orange lobster, a Portland fisherman hauled in three from one trap, according to Harbor Fish Market.
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.
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 decorate the tombs of the pharaohs. In Medieval Europe, ultramarine blue was highly sought after among artists, but was as precious as gold. Johanns Vermeer, who painted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring,' loved the color so much that he pushed his family into debt to purchase the paint color. Art historians believe Michelangelo left his painting 'The Entombment' unfinished because he cou
What's more Portland than lobster boats heading out to Casco Bay with seagulls in pursuit? Well, maybe just the lobster roll that's the end result of the aforementioned scene. Tell us how many seagulls you see in the photo below and you'll be entered to win a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of the image, because we love Maine and we know you do, too.