Tie Dyes an a Maypole. Similarly dressed, and content to have part of the Maypole to themselves, from left, were Wyatt McBeth, William Markkula, and Eva, Addie and Elyse Waters, during the May Day Celebration behind the Visitors Center at Clifton E. French Regional Park Tuesday, May 1, in Plymouth. Participants were treated to a puppet show, followed by dancing around the Maypole, planting spring flowers, making a May basket, and playing other springtime games.

Minnetonka Center for the Arts instructor and sculpture studio manager Carey Netherton, left, holds one end of an apparatus, while stone carving instructor Frank Picos holds the other, allowing them to stay a safe distance from the 2,100-degree f cask of molten bronze Wednesday, Feb. 26, during a bronze pour at the Orono art center.