Winter on Lake Superior: Part Two

Here is the second set of

winter pictures

of Lake Superior

that I promised you!!

I know many of you already have green grass poking up

and some of you

even have spring flowers blooming.

Believe me,

in the U.P. (Upper Peninsula) of Michigan,

we won't see true spring

until April

and even sometimes, we still get snow in April or May.

So, we learn to love the beauty of our winters

and embrace spring with great celebration here when it finally DOES arrive!

In the meantime, enjoy our winter beauty pictures!

Icy walkway to the gorgeous lighthouse:

Ice and snow on shore!:

Winter shoreline drama!:

Island ice:

Snow coming down

on the icy walkway out to the lighthouse:

Icy shores looking out at the icy lighthouse!:

Icy islands that look like floating iceburgs!:

Another view of the winter lighthouse:

A lonely winter park bench!:

Winter's grip on the shore trees:

Long shot of the same place:

Winter lake scene:

Snowing on the

icy

walkway to the lighthouse:

It is so hard to believe that in just a few weeks,

all of this will melt away...

life will again come to the trees and the grass,

and it will look totally different.

Nature is so amazing!

Winter on Lake Superior: Part ONE

Before we left for Florida on Jan. 14th,

I took a trip to Marquette, Michigan,

which is about 30 miles from where I live.

It is where I graduated from high school and college.

I love the town and always will.

I try and get out to the shores of Lake Superior, on the edge of town

every season

to take some photos.

So, today, I have some for you and since I took so many photos,

I will do two blogposts of them for you.

Here is Set ONE:

We had some very cold temperatures

along with wind,

which makes the waves fly up against the breakwater and freeze:



And,

the waves push up big ice chunks

against the shore:

This one was taken at dusk

of the Coast Guard station.

I loved the dark ominous sky:

I have taken photos of this log cabin on the shore before on this blog

during summer and fall.

But the drama comes in the winter, when the ice is on the cliffs beside it:

My fingers felt about as icy

as this

ice clump along the shore while taking these photos!

But it was so neat, I had to take a photo of it! (Nature doesn't wait for wimps):

More ice along the shore:

There is this spot called "Pictured Rocks" in town.

It is 3 islands right off shore and there is a little park there.

There are signs in the summer warning people NOT to try and swim to them

because there are riptides.

We have had many deaths because college kids don't listen and try to do it anyway and have drowned.

This is one of the islands in winter's grip:

They are gorgeous islands, even in the winter.

Stay tuned, more photos in this Set

coming soon on the blog!

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