Bond Falls: The Finale!

This the last of my Bond Falls in the Winter series of photographs.

Oh, I have MORE...

but you have  been patient enough!!

For those of you that haven't suffered through the entire series

and are masochistic enough to want to go back and see the other parts of them...

just keep scolling down, down, down through

my blogposts and if you get to the bottom of the page,

hit "OLDER" and you may get even MORE!

Here is another black and white of

that fabulous frozen foam that was gathered at one part of the river!

It looked like meringue!:

If you study the ice formations, they really are very individual

and quite spectacular:

This was part of what we needed to get PAST

to take some of my pictures.

YIKES!

What medication was I

ON

that day, anyway???:

You can see why I couldn't go any further past this point...

there were only ICE CLIFFS without even any ICE STAIRS to help me!!

I'm NUTS, but I'm not suicidal!!

Some hikers were going to try and cross the river on this snow and ice covered logs.

Thank goodness they changed their minds~!:

Still sighing over the views we saw!:

I would have LOVED to have been able to hike over to the little viewing deck

seen at the top of this photo...

but that would've involved climbing down and back up ice cliffs to do it:

What the U.P. of Michigan must look like to the satellites in the winter

(like frozen Antartica continents!):

Frozen river hat!:

Thank you SO much for going on this journey with me.

I loved being able to share these photos with you all. 

Bond Falls: Part Six

I know this has been a rather long series

of photographs

of one spot.

But these waterfalls are a series of many, many cascading falls

making them seem

like a new waterfall

every few feet.

And then...

throw in ice sculptures and snow tufts of beauty...

and

well,

I just couldn't stop clicking the shutter.

So, today...

we continue.

First with a series of black and whites:

Doesn't this ice formation look like a crocodile?:

Crystal clear ice lace:

And snow/ice plates!:

Ruffles of ice!:

All that ACTION and rushing water,

right next to the fragile overhang of clear ice!:

A closeup of the alligator teeth

in black and white:

Refreshing...

all of nature's good things...

fresh water, clean snow, crystal ice....!:

A perfect place to slide down

into the rushing water!:

No. No.

You first.

Really...

go ahead...

I can wait...

Bond Falls: Part FIVE

More

Bond Falls in the Winter

photos in the series....

Love the center ice!:

And this one in Black and White:

One part of the river had all this collected frozen FOAM!

It was fantastic!:

The frosted bottom of the falls!:

We couldn't climb down there to get the view looking UP the falls

as it was a huge ice cliff with no way to do it unless you were an ice cliff climber!

Look at this lacy ice overhang!:

Bundle up,

get out there.....

Mother Nature has great things to show you this winter!!

Bond Falls-Part FOUR

Hope you aren't bored yet, because today we are continuing our

Bond Falls in the winter series! 

Hey, I live up  in the frozen tundra, so I have to share it with you, right?

RIGHT???!!

Here is a closeup of that frozen iced-up branch in black and white

that I fell in love with:

I loved this tree with puffs of snow on it, caught in the middle of the river:

Ice formations, EVERYWHERE!:

Sometimes I think I love waterfalls even MORE

in the winter!:

Feel the rush!:

The water just dumps

into a

winter wonderland!:

And here it is again...

this time in black and white!:

I LOVED those tufts of snow smack in the middle of the falls:

I believe I will have yet another blog post

of pictures of the falls

and that will be the conclusion....

Until then, stay as fresh and clean as these falls

and add

a little drama (like the black and white ones)

to your life to "mix it up" a bit....

Hey.

It works for Mother Nature, doesn't it?

Bond Falls!-Part ONE

Every winter, I like to snowshoe in to at least one winter

waterfall.

Not only is it good exercise, but the falls take on a whole new look

in the winter white

and

never fails to amaze me with its ice formations.

Besides, it is wonderful for black and white photos too.

So, about a month ago, we packed up the car and took a drive to Bond Falls.

It was gorgeous.

And there had been so many snowmobilers that had walked the trail to the falls, that we didn't even need

to use our snowshoes...we wore our regular winter boots.

So for the next few blogposts, I am going to share some of the beauty of these winter falls with YOU.

The falls are actually a set of several cascading falls down to the very bottom.

So I am showing you these in the order of our actual walk down the falls.

SEE why I really LOVE winter falls?:

All over the place were clumps of snow and ice right beside rushing water:

And stunning "plates" of ice formations overhanging the rapids:

This adorable little hut is open in the summer at the falls...but it was closed up and sealed

for the winter now:

Pine boughs....

               snow clumps...

                                 and rushing water..

                               Awwww...

Forget about looking at clouds for dreams...

what do these look like to YOU?:

I loved this little

adorable bridge

on the walk beside the falls:

AND

this view of the river

with the bridge over it:

And we totally lucked out with the weather that day....

very warm for US....in the high 30's and sunny...

hardly even a breeze.

Just glorious and refreshing.

Stay tuned, I will be posting MORE of our Bond Falls trip

in blogposts to come....