The best shots from Lawrence Journal-World photographers during the month of May.

photo by: Mike Yoder

An approximately 1-month-old juvenile barred owl sits in the entrance of an owl house, May 2, 2015, in a wooded area north of Lawrence.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Lawrence High and Rockhurst baseball players have some fun during a rain delay, Monday, May 4, 2015 at LHS. Lawrence players Daonte Lowery (12) and Jacob Unruh (26), left, and Rockhurst's David Leatherwood (2) and Ben Whetstone (22) celebrated Star Wars Day with a little jousting.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Leonard Monroe remembers playing basketball during the days of Jim Crow as a member of the Promoters, an all-black high school basketball team active from the 1920s until the 1950s.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Anita Hankinson puts on her buckskin moccasins before the Haskell Indian Nations University commencement ceremony Friday, May 8, 2015. Hankinson made her dress and moccasins and had just finished completing her outfit the night before.

photo by: Nick Krug

Shelby Mangus, right, monitors anesthesia levels for a dog named Ace as Taylor Boles neuters him inside the mobile surgery unit of Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The unit visited the Lawrence Humane Society Wednesday. The students expected to perform about 30 surgeries that day during the unit’s first tour. Mangus and Boles are both fourth-year veterinarian students.

photo by: Mike Yoder

A graduate wearing a Star Wars stormtrooper helmet passes by KU faculty during the university's commencement processional Sunday, May 17, 2015.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence musician John Lomas estimates he has been in about 40 bands in his musical career. He has been playing in and around Lawrence since the early '70s.

photo by: Nick Krug

Deerfield Elementary first-graders Bryer Hierl, center, Addison Maier, right, Eyan Conforti, back, and others surround their classmate Ana Kokhanovsky, back facing, as Ana leaves class on the final day of school, Thursday, May 21, 2015.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Audrey Kamb-Studdard places flowers at the gravestone of her husband John Buran Studdard, in the Veteran’s Plot at Oak Hill Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 2015. John Studdard was a veteran of the Korean War and a former chaplain with the local American Legion. Kamb-Studdard brought along her recently adopted dog Stella, who provides companionship after the death of her husband in 2013. “He didn’t care for dogs,” said Kamb-Studdard.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Pet World staff, volunteers and area veterinarians give oxygen to reptiles rescued from an afternoon fire at the store, Monday, May 25, 2015.

photo by: Nick Krug

Van Go artist Luke Fitzgerald, 18, stops to study a colorful wall of 196 glass panels, 20 of which he estimates he created, outside Van Go, 715 New Jersey St., during The Big Picture event on Thursday. The event, which featured live music and a look at the new glass tile mural created by Van Go artists, marked the start of the organization's Big Picture Endowment Campaign, said Development Director Eliza Nichols. The campaign is meant to ensure the longevity of the 20-year-old organization, Nichols said. So far, the endowment has raised $555,000. The group hopes to accumulate $750,000 by the end of the year. The wall has the capacity to hold more than 800 tiles, Nichols said. A single tile can be purchased for $150.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Free State High junior Hunter Gudde (6) piles on after FSHS beat Shawnee Mission Northwest, 4-1, to win the Class 6A state baseball championship on Friday, May 29, 2015, at Hogund Ballpark.

photo by: Richard Gwin

August Gilbreath, of Lenexa, swallows some fire for a crowd in downtown Lawrence at the Busker Festival on Friday, May 29, 2015.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Andrea Repinsky, of Lawrence, showed her creative skills by dressing up as a monarch caterpillar on Saturday, May 30, 2015, during the annual Art Tougeau Parade in downtown Lawrence.

photo by: Richard Gwin

John Robert Bowden, of Lawrence, showed off his three-wheel 1996 Ford Escort on Saturday, May 30, 2015, during the annual Art Tougeau Parade in downtown Lawrence.