The clouds that brought snow the night before were breaking up…and I enjoyed the contrast between the softness of those clouds and the hard edges of a building at the orchard. The scene appealed to me. A lot. It appealed to me a lot. And then later, I noticed how the North Star sign and star snuck their way into the picture. Good work, sign!

North Star Orchards
Madison, Maine
photographed 3.21.2026