Walking on Water
Well frozen water anyway.
It's not every year that even part of the lake (Superior, that is) freezes over. This year it's been COLD and the lake is freezing (it only completely freezes over about once every 15 years or so...I think the last time was in 1995/96. Incidentally the last winter I lived in Duluth before moving to California! ha)
Yesterday, Steve, his brother Paul & I went walking on the lake. It was...freaky. The ice is about 10-12 inches thick and you can see cracks on various levels as you look down. In some places it it black - it looks like you're walking on nothing. An abyss (freaky). In other places it looks like the ripples on the lake just stopped, mid-motion. In some places the ice is formed of separate pieces that have overlapped to form the solid sheet...like an ice collage.
It was cold. We walked a couple miles probably - the wind chill was nasty. But it was well worth the unique experience. There are lots of ice houses out this year, there are people skating, taking photos, walking their dogs, playing hockey - we even saw two people biking on the lake! It's amazing. Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the unique beauty of our planet.
It's not every year that even part of the lake (Superior, that is) freezes over. This year it's been COLD and the lake is freezing (it only completely freezes over about once every 15 years or so...I think the last time was in 1995/96. Incidentally the last winter I lived in Duluth before moving to California! ha)
Yesterday, Steve, his brother Paul & I went walking on the lake. It was...freaky. The ice is about 10-12 inches thick and you can see cracks on various levels as you look down. In some places it it black - it looks like you're walking on nothing. An abyss (freaky). In other places it looks like the ripples on the lake just stopped, mid-motion. In some places the ice is formed of separate pieces that have overlapped to form the solid sheet...like an ice collage.
It was cold. We walked a couple miles probably - the wind chill was nasty. But it was well worth the unique experience. There are lots of ice houses out this year, there are people skating, taking photos, walking their dogs, playing hockey - we even saw two people biking on the lake! It's amazing. Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the unique beauty of our planet.
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Still no real SNOW in Duluth to speak of. BORING BROWN WINTER. Blech. There's talk of a snow storm in our future but i'm not holding my breath (although I'd love a big blizzard where we get snowed in!!)