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Motorcyclists line up for the drive-thru blessing at the New London Motorcycle Club's annual bike blessing Sunday, May 15, 2022 at New London Waterfront Park. The event re-located from Ocean Beach Park where it was held last year. The event opened at 11 a.m. with vendor booths, food trucks, a bike show, and music by the band American Honey on City Pier Plaza. The drive-thru blessing began at 2 p.m. The $10 admission fee benefits a number of local charities, including Covenant Shelter, Waterford Country School, and MALTA, Inc. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Blessing the bikes in New London

Tracy Hunter of Bridgeport poses for a photo for her husband, Gregory, with their children, Avaughani, 5, and Savannah, 3, at the edge of the water Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Ocean Beach Park in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Beach weather includes fog in New London

Colin McGovern of Waterford wades ashore at Waterford Beach Park with his surfboard Thursday, May 12, 2022, and is greeted by his son, Camden, 8, after paddling in the prone position for an upper-body workout. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Father and son get some outdoor activity at Waterford Beach Park

Jennifer Nelb, of West Hartford, works at her computer on a bench along the shoreline at UConn Avery Point on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Nelb works in the area and decided to spend some time outside when the weather was so nice. She said this was one of the first days of the year it was nice enough to do this.

Work with a view

A group of sailboats moves past a fishing boat as seen from Eastern Point in Groton on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

May sail

The U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle passes Avery Point Light in Groton as it departs New London harbor to start the summer cadet training season Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Eagle will be in Miami, Florida, the first port call, May 19-23. Eagle will return to New London, after stops in Florida, Texas, and Bermuda, on July 21st. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Summer sail training under way

A Bell 407 helicopter with JBI Helicopter Services of Pembroke, N.H., hovers over the shore of Deans Reservoir in Stonington to remove a utility pole from land owned by the Avalonia Land Conservancy and Aquarion Water Co. and transport it to a field off Maritime Drive in Mystic Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The project is a cooperative effort between the Denison Homestead, the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Eversource, Avalonia and Aquarion. Eversource will be using land at the end of Maritime Drive owned by the Homestead to land, store and dismantle the poles after they are removed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

High flying utility poles

Charles Reyburn, of Waterford, starts his walk home after folding up his easel Tuesday, May 10, 2022, after painting a scene on Shore Road in Waterford. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

A nice day to paint

Crew of the historic schooner Victory Chimes, from left, 2nd mate Aaron Funk, captain Sam Sikkema, chief mate Tripp Seaman, and deckhands Kate McCann, and Celia Vowels, furl the vessel’s main sail Monday, May 9, 2022 while docked at Mystic Seaport Museum’s Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard in Mystic. The schooner, launched in 1900 in Bethel, Delaware, to work the Chesapeake Bay cargo trade, is now a member of the Maine windjammer fleet carrying passengers along coastal Maine. Victory Chimes is in Mystic for maintenance and a Coast Guard inspection with plans to return to Maine by the beginning of June and ready for a first trip on June 11. The vessel is owned and captained by Sam Sikkema, who served as chief mate for the 38th voyage of the Mystic Seaport Museum’s historic wooden whaleship Charles W. Morgan. Sikkema said neither of the two shipyards in Maine capable of hauling the Victory Chimes, which is 127-feet long, were available this spring, so a trip to Mystic, with its staff of experienced wooden boat shipwrights, was the best option. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Furling the sails

Thomas DePetrillo of Extreme Costumes located in Providence, R.I., portraying Bumblebee, a Tansformer, teases employee Lucy Driscoll that he will mess up her display of free comic books during Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at Sarge´s Comics & More in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

New London shop marks Free Comic Book Day

Contractors with Crocker Architectural and Enterprise Scaffolding Inc. erect the scaffolding Friday, May 6, 2022, around the cupola of the Slater building at Norwich Free Academy. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

New slate for Slater in Norwich

Solana Polimeni, a seasonal maintainer with Connecticut State Parks, trims the grass on the earthworks Thursday, May 5, 2022, at Fort Trumbull State Park in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Giving the earthworks a trim at Fort Trumbull

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