ice crystals
Ice crystals cover the surface of Blue Mesa reservoir. This was a perfectly calm morning and the crystals had grown to several feet in length.
Stormy Shards
These blades of ice are the result of an ice storm, followed by a warm (near freezing) humid day.
Spring Cascade
Spring in northern Wisconsin always brings high water from snow melt and rain, which provides spectacular sights at local waterfalls and rivers. This spring certainly delivered with cold nights providing an icy fringe to the water.
Frozen Spray
These icicles are the result of cold nights during the spring thaw. Just up river from this cliff is a waterfall that was creating a cloud of mist, freezing into fantastical shapes along the ledges.
Shattered Shoreline
Occasionally Lake Superior is calm enough on cold nights to freeze over a large area of the with thin ice. Once a breeze picks up it pushes the ice onto the shore making what look like piles of broken panes of glass.
Canoeing on the Big Lake
This was the best day I’d seen for spring canoeing on Lake Superior. Perfectly calm, the ice was drifting out instead of packed in the bays. The world looks different from level with the flows.
Winter Blues
The cold weather does provide amazing things. This is the result of warm days and freezing nights slowly forming large ice crystals on the surface of puddles, ponds, and rivers.
Glow
This is another winter sunset from the shores of Lake Superior, featuring early winter ice sheets, and wet feet to get to the location this was taken from.