Mike Greeley holds a ladder for Scott Votra as he strips the electronic door opener on the barn that served as the Manchester Fire Department. The McGee Construction employees stripped the contents before razing the structure.

Vicki Hyde herds a pair of geese at her family farm in Pittson. The Hydes raise chickens, llama, guineafowl, sheep, goats, cows and operate a self serve egg service at their spread.

Rufus Percy carries a sawhorse to a construction site at a farm in Whitefield. Percy was repairing an 18th century barn.

Josh Dakin, of Jay, watches the ball after teeing off at the Cobbossee Colony Golf Course in Monmouth. Clad in shorts and a short sleeve shirt, Dakin teed off with his friends, Karen and Dave Brackett, left, and his father, Glenn, in temperatures in the 30s.

Tony Padden rolls a Harley-Davidson out of his Hallowell barn. The owner of HottRod Baggers, who customizes motorcycles, said he was taking advantage of the lack of snow to make room in his shop in sub-zero temperatures. Despite the imminent arrival of snow, Padden said the weather for his motorcycle shop “has been good so far this year.”

Ben Marcus collects his thoughts while rotating the tires on a tractor at the farm he manages in Whitefield. Marcus and his partner raise produce and operate a store, the Sheepscot General, at the spread. The tractor tires were widened to add more more room to furrow rows in the spring.

West Gardiner firefighters climb atop a barn to extinguish a chimney fire. The volunteers spent two hours knocking down the blaze at the West Gardiner farm but contained the fire to the chimney.

Jasmine Cotton cradles a neighbor’s cat after he accompanied her on chores around Mystic Run Farm in Gardiner. Cotton said the feline likes to climb upon her shoulders and ride through the llama pasture while she distributes hay. Mystic Run Farm has been owned by Cotton’s family since the middle of the 19th century.

Helen Brimigion rolls up holiday lights that adorned a shrub in front of her Hallowell barn during the season. “We have fun,” she said of decorating with illumination during Christmas. “It’s almost tacky.”

Ernie McPherson, left, examines a calender he prepared to hang in his barn as his son, Ned, second from left, and nephews Mike, Dave and Steve McPherson wait to resume logging at the Farmingdale farm. The men stopped for a beer between twitching loads of wood they cut in the elder McPherson’s wood lot.