Lake Superior Winter Splendor: Part ONE

We have had some subzero weather this week, but on the day that I took these pictures, it warmed to a balmy 19 degrees with sun and there was just a little breeze outside.

I took the opportunity to go to Lake Superior's shores (without my boot cast...yup, the Dr. said I didn't need to wear it anymore for my fractured foot! YAY!).

I was hoping the snow and open water would yield some nice photos and I wanted to treasure hunt for ice formations on the shore there.

I found some!

I just loved this frozen "hat" of ice that formed on the top and over the lake stone:

I was concentrating so hard looking for ice formations on the shoreline, that I almost missed

HIM!:

He was just paddling around silently with his female companion on the big lake.

After getting him on camera, I turned back to looking for more ice formations. If you look by the ice, down in the water, you can see a huge Lake Superior stone under the clear water, too:




Ok. Just one more of this beautiful duck and we will move on...

This is looking out at what is called "Picnic Rocks"...which consists of three of these little rock islands. I loved the icy shore too:

Everywhere I looked there were interesting ice formations on the shore:

Even lacy ones:

Another HAT.....ice that covered the huge stones sticking out from the water:

And bumpy ice!:

And stalagtite ice, reaching right into the frozen beach sand!:

I took so many photos there, I had to divide them into more than one blogpost.

Stay tuned tomorrow for Part 2.