Boulders of Ice

Here is another "oldie"... lately it seems I've been more interested in digging through old photos rather than shooting new ones.  However, the weather recently has been bringing us cooler temperatures so hopefully there will be some NEW ice to photograph soon :-)  

In the meantime, I bring you this shot from March of 2007.  We had a lot of ice that year, and some rather unique things happened.  We had ice extending out from shore quite a ways and a big wind storm came up, crushing up the surface ice.  As the ice rolled around in the waves it was shaped into these round-ish "boulders".  Then, the waves flung the ice boulders up onto the shoreline.  Most of the beaches in Grand Portage were covered with ice similar to what you see in this photo.  It was pretty surreal... and FUN walking along the shoreline and taking in this winter wonderland!  This post comes to you on Christmas Eve, so I'd like to wish you all a wonderful and very Merry Christmas!