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The swirly waters of Tahquamenon Falls in Michigan's Tahquamenon Falls State Park .

Ice Crystals and Sand on the beach

*Pun Intended ;) Found a little bit of Winter up in Northern Michigan recently.  This is a photo through the railings on the breakwall ...

We get some very interesting designs in the Chicago River when the ice layer starts to crack, separate, and eventually melt. (Best part was...

A Winter sunset complete with some interesting lace-like ice patterns.

You have to love the cool ice sculptures that Lake Michigan makes during the winter. These are along the pier in Charlevoix, Michigan.

Time, dirt, sand, and, now, rising temperatures have created some odd little ice sculptures along the lakefront. (This almost doesn't l...

We don't see igloos around here too often. But some people clearly used last week's snow storm to their advantage and built this one...

Yesterday's sunrise over Lake Michigan. Interesting clouds and lovely colors.

I have a few more photos from the snow and freeze period in earlier January. This is from North Avenue Beach. In nice weather, this is the...

At first, I didn't recognize what these were. Then I realized they were the pylons that ring North Avenue Beach. The ice accumulates a...

The sun created this shadow of a tree on a mostly-frozen and snow covered North Pond.

Chicago This ice fisherman on Wolf Lake was heading home for the day ... Chicago ... but some of his fellow ice-fishing fans were still hold...

It is cold here. Monroe Harbor is starting to ice over.

This is a "leftover" photo from the end of December when an ice storm came through Chicago and interrupted holiday travel. I can s...

The winter switch has been flipped to the "ON" position in Chicago. Ice and snow regularly move through. It isn't just March t...

A little pre-holiday getaway to the Little Traverse Bay area of upper lower Michigan. They've had way more snow than Chicago. This is...

The Department of Transportation Snow Plows (although the evening news was referring to them as "Snow Fighters") were out in force...

One last picture from last weekend's Spring snow. It was a heavy, wet snow so it clung to the branches. These tree buds, though, made it...

OK, so last week it was warm enough that I went running along the lakefront and the ice in the harbor melted. But then it got cold so a thi...