February Beaver Lodge

 

Ice walk on a local creek/marsh today. The winter of no snow continues, making for much easier exploration of ponds, creeks and swampy areas than would typically be possible. 

Frosted Cattails

 

Woke up to fog yesterday morning on Lake Superior.  Yep. Fog in February. Usually at this time of year it would be steam, due to the frigid air clashing with the warmth emanating from Lake Superior (relative warmth... usually the air is MUCH colder than the lake this time of year).  This year, however, we are in the midst of a very mild winter and there is much less of a difference between the air temp and the water temp.  

At any rate, it was a very foggy day along the lakeshore but if you went inland a couple of miles it was sunny.  I took a drive in to where the fog bank ended and the sunshine took over. I found some beautiful cattail swamps that must have had fog settling on them overnight. As the fog settled it created a layer of frost on the cattails and the trees.  It was beautiful.  And a great reason to take my Nikon out for a spin.

 I've been pretty busy these past few months promoting the Spirits Dancing book and that means I haven't done much photography.  I'm going to make it a point to get back into the habit of taking the "big" camera out (rather than just using my phone) to create some images.