Tag: ice
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning
The temperatures had already started their downward trend, -8°F with a –28°F wind chill when this photo was taken mid-afternoon from Duluth’s Brighton Beach, as the sea smoke rose from Lake Superior. The beginning of the far-reaching cold snap had arrived. Minnesotans may be hardy stock, but this impending deep freeze has even prompted the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon
The original fifty shades of gray . . . Sometime the horizon is the thinnest of lines, a subtle demarcation separating the heavy sky from the frozen winter lake. Ciao! ~ Kat This post was in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. ”Horizon” was this week’s theme. Everyone is welcome to join in the…
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Life Lessons: Success Is Letting Go of Perfection
I was disappointed when the sunset did not contain the brilliant colors it had displayed earlier in the week, as I stood on the icy shoreline of Lake Superior with camera in hand. I thought, “Is this all?” Seemingly flat colors, uninteresting cloud formations, no breathtaking moment as the sun dipped below the horizon. But,…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details
The North Shore of Lake Superior is a place where one can easily get lost in the details. While its beauty is great when taking in the broader view, it is when one gets down on hands and knees, and really examines the shoreline up close, that the exquisite designs of nature are discovered. “Look…
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Life is Made up of Moments
“Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for…
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