Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Fortress of Ice

















This ice formation was photographed along the Grand Portage shoreline of Lake Superior a few days ago.  It never ceases to amaze me the endless forms that ice can take along the shores of this great lake. This "fortress" of ice formed over the top of a large mound of rocks.  As the rocks get pounded by the waves the water freezes and forms into ice.  Every year the ice looks different, as it never freezes in the same exact shape.  Often times even from one day to the next it will look different as new waves add new layers of ice, or warm days melt a layer of ice.  

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