Photo Library

In the placid water between retreating sheets of ice on Casco’s Pleasant Lake, Canadian geese honk tête-à-tête.

“It looks like the sky fell into the water,” my son said on a recent walk, picking up on the poetry in a colorless seascape. In this image, taken from Two Lights State Park in Cape Elizabeth, a pocket of sunshine brings welcome levity to the scene.

“Narcissus — such a lover of itself, it overcomes the cold grip of winter in the warm early spring sun, giving us hope of milder days ahead.”

Steven Perlmutter captured the early morning sky over South Portland’s Willard Beach in a riot of lupine shades; the feeble glow from a lone streetlight keeps the scene from feeling cloying.

March storms may not be for everyone, but can we all agree that sunrises look exquisite on white?

In honor of the daylight saving switch this weekend, we present one of the sun’s final late-afternoon warming attempts, captured by ordieman02 near Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport.

After blizzards and ironclad gray days, a beacon of hope emerges on Deer Isle.

“Living off the grid in a yurt has its challenges, especially in winter. After our recent blizzard, it was especially challenging walking the ¼ mile from our yurt to our car. Luckily, here on North Haven, we have great neighbors who cleared our trail, making the walk much easier.”

Can you name this famous lighthouse? With its red-roofed keeper’s quarters and rocky environs out of view, the tower is not so easy to place. Kudos alpha-omega.photography for portraying one of the state’s most photographed landmarks in a new, well, you know.