Butler Art Center gallery director Stephen Haley takes advantage of the mild weather Friday with fellow artist Steve Dray to paint “en plein air” at McConnells Mill State Park.

Local whitewater kayaker Matt Pascal of Pittsburgh paddles up stream on Slippery Rock Creek, below McConnells Mill, Friday.

Butler Art Center gallery director Stephen Haley, above, takes advantage of the mild weather Friday with fellow artist Steve Dray to paint outdoors, also called painting en plein air, at McConnells Mill State Park.At left, Chloe Ciora, 22, of Nixon, a senior computer science major at the University of Pittsburgh, started her winter break skateboarding at the Adams Township Community Park on partly-sunny Thursday.Local whitewater kayaker Matt Pascal of Pittsburgh, below, paddles upstream Friday on Slippery Rock Creek, below McConnells Mill.