In pictures this week

SEAFLOOR HARVEST … A worm digger in the mudflats at Trenton Narrows recently. ISLANDER PHOTO BY LIZ GRAVES

EMERGING INSIGHT … The curators of “Emergence,” the new exhibit at the Abbe Museum, at the opening celebration for the exhibit on Friday. From left, Joan Lester, Julia Gray and Stan Neptune (Penobscot). PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ABBE MUSEUM

EXCAVATOR SPECTATOR … A construction worker looks on while an excavator smooths dirt in a hole near the Acadia National Park entrance in Hulls Cove. A temporary traffic light has been installed at the intersection, to be used when a one-way loop goes into effect May 1. ISLANDER PHOTO BY SAMUEL SHEPHERD

NEXT STOP, WORLDS … The Mount Desert Island High School robotics team received a donation of $2,500 from Bar Harbor Bank & Trust to help defray the cost for the team to participate in the World VEX Robotics Competition April 24-28 in Kentucky. Lisa Parsons, left, of BHBT, with Tucker Atwood, MDI High School robotics team coach, beside Parsons, and team members, standing, left to right, Christopher Allen, Robert Denegre, Branden Dagenais, Lucas Ingebritson and Tyler Bechtold, and kneeling, Maev Rogers, Taki Ishimura and Gloria Kelley. Not shown: Coach Megan McOsker and member Massimo Daul. PHOTO COURTESY OF BHB&T

LOOKS GOOD SO FAR … Addison LeClair, a seventh-grade student at Mount Desert Elementary School, shows his not-yet-finished wood burning piece during a special Art Week class at the school on Tuesday. ISLANDER PHOTO BY DICK BROOM

WATCH YOUR STEP … Gazing at the scenery while walking on the Shore Path in Bar Harbor can be hazardous because of a hole created when a section of the retaining wall collapsed during a storm in February. ISLANDER PHOTO BY DICK BROOM

ASKED AND ANSWERED … Maine Department of Transportation engineer Carmen Forzetting discusses ongoing construction on Route 3 in Bar Harbor with visitors to an open house at the Bar Harbor Municipal Building on Monday. Water and sewer system work will close down Eden Street between West Street and Mount Desert Street from April 14-22. ISLANDER PHOTO BY SAMUEL SHEPHERD

HANDS-ON SCIENCE … Kindergartener Otto Erlandsen, 5, stands in front of his presentation at the Conners Emerson Science Fair Tuesday. Erlandsen put noodles, milk, spinach, tulip petals, olive oil, chili lime salt, soap, water and a crumpled up page of newspaper in a jar to study the affects the “potion” would have on the newspaper after two months. His potion turned pink from the rose petals and the newspaper could still be read through the jar. IMAGE COURTESY OF ROBIN ERLANDSEN