Many Minnesotans would suggest the stark icy landscape of Lake Superior this winter is the epitome of abandoned — all warm temperatures have made themselves scarce this season, as we “celebrate” our 65th day of sub-zero temperatures in Duluth today. (Weather Underground has been kind enough to do a daily sub-zero tally update for those cities in the Midwestern region of the United States who are part of the “Abandoned by Humane Temperatures” club.) For more photos of this stark, but beautiful, frozen landscape, stop by yesterday’s “Put On Your Big Girl Mukluks and Enjoy Winter’s Beauty” post, and last week’s photo challenge, “Threes.”
However, to be honest, the ruins of the Abbey of San Galgano immediately came to mind when this week’s challenge theme was announced. In an earlier post, I shared with you many views from and the history behind this fascinating site near Siena, in the Tuscany region of Italy, but thought I would share one more in response to this week’s “Abandoned” theme.
Ciao! ~ Kat
This post was in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. ”Abandoned” was this week’s theme. Everyone is welcome to join in the Challenge; further details on how to participate and links to others’ responses are found here.
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Stark and beautiful, both come to mind looking at the frozen lake! and the Tuscan abbey is perfect for this theme, lovely shot:)
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65 days. Yikes. My condolences!
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67 today and counting …
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Duluth is such a lovely town! I cannot imagine it SO COLD for so long! Beautiful crisp portrayal Kat, keep warm!
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Beautiful pic of Lake Superior, Kat. Today they said that 80% of the Great Lakes are frozen, up from 70% last week. On the plus side, they think this may help the system’s water levels to rise a bit due to less being loss to evaporation. Talk about making lemonade out of lemons! 🙂
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I think Lake Superior was nearly at 100% this year, which is truly amazing when you consider its surface area. And I think this week we hit Day 70 of days with sub-zero temps for the winter season…
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Stark contrast between the frozen lake and the Italian ruins. I know where I’d rather be at the moment 🙂
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Quite a contrast between the first two and the last one. 🙂 It’s been a unusually cold winter in Chicago as well but not as cold as where you are. I like winter, but I’m looking forward to spring, too.
janet
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I love that first photo – looks like Antarctica!
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Brrrrrr – looks sooooo cold! Graet photos.
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Thanks, wisemonkey!
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Lake Superior in the winter can be awful, but this winter must be something else entirely.
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It has been challenging even for the most hardy of the northerners.
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Especially the first one is “my cup of tea”…
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Thanks tms — I shoot in color but as I went through shots from that day, that one lent itself to the B&W conversion.
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