The return?

It appears I can now blog from my iPad, but will I?

Morning Rose

Sunrise over Lake Michigan, sometime in March. These are taken on two different days, with the phone camera, so I'm not sure of the dates.

Serenity

Calm late afternoon shot from 3/15/12.

Camaraderie

Two young people walking together along the lake shore. I wish that I saw more of this. Sometimes I think I'm one of only a handful of people who pay any attention to this wonder outside our windows. From 3/13/12.

Peaceful New Year

Today it is terribly windy outside, and I may go to the Lake later to get a representative pic, but in the meantime, I want to share this beauty from earlier this year.

This is Schoolhouse Beach, on Washington Island, Wisconsin, at the tip of Door County.  I have been to Washington Island a few times, but not for several decades. This lovely photo was generously shared by guest photographer MS. Thanks, M, and Happy New Year to you and yours!

Light! Camera! Action!

A lame title, but a new one! I love that splash of light out there on the horizon.  The waves had died down some by afternoon, but it was still a good show.

I'm Back! Blogging

After the I'm Back! blogging, I will need to do a LOT of backblogging to catch up from summer. But anyway, this was today. Above, new life in one of the trees broken off in the June storm.

Someone was trying to be romantic with the rocks on the beach. I think it says "...U GO OUT WITH ME?"
Answer: NO. Oh, snap! and with rocks, no less!
And here's a pretty view looking south at dusk.

Sailing Away

Or kiting away, or whatever. I am embarrassed about how far behind I am on posting. I have SO MANY beautiful pics from this summer to put up. Hang in there, and hang ten, like these guys.

Backblogging: Moonrise

Tiny moon, big sky. From late July 2011.

Backblogging: 500th post! 5 gorgeous views!

Prairie meets lake.
Clear water, smooth round stones.
A sandy beach with driftwood--or is that a lioness napping between tufts of grass on an African plain?
Humans meet Lake.
Sunset over Southport point. All from June 2011.

When I started this blog nearly 3 years ago, I could never have predicted what was to come: nearly 30,000 pageviews, a google hit with a post about icebergs, an art exhibit of some of these very photos, visitors from all over the world. But the thing that keeps me blogging is the reason I started in the first place: a reason to notice and share the beauty of this great natural wonder that is part of my very lucky everyday existence. Thank you for visiting.

Backblogging: The non-calm before the non-storm

I was out for a walk around 7pm on June 30th, and noticed that the sky looked weird and the Lake was roiling. I even took a video to try out my new phone video feature:

As you can tell, it was NOISY and wavy. And then, about 90 minutes later, this.

BackBlogging: Early June

I have been neglecting to post but not to photograph. Here are some beauties from 6 weeks back. I love the gulls.

Blogging by Phone

I got one of these new-fangled phones, thinking I could blog from it easily. Not quite. But I'm learning. Here's a pretty beach sunset to start.
From Thursday, 7/8/11.

Update, by computer: Okay, so that went comically wrong. But that is how we learn, no?

Lakefront Devastation

Last night, I was going to sit down and blog all the beautiful photos I took in June, so that June would not be a post-less month. The wind had other ideas. Our beautiful lakefront trees have been destroyed. We are all devastated. When we get power at our house, I'll try to post some before and after pics. So sad. So, so sad.

Spectacular Sky

That's a rainstorm off on the horizon, with reflected sun peeking out from behind.
This tree is about to burst into leaf. Spring seems to have arrived. Finally. From Tuesday 4/26/11.

Channeling

The Pike River usually empties pretty directly into the Lake, but due to big storms/waves that piled up a lot of sand, it had to carve a channel into the beach, leaving a sand bar for the seagulls.
They are making full use of it.
From Easter Sunday, 4/24/11.

More Signs of Spring

The nearly-empty boatslips are slowly filling, weekend by weekend.

Sparkly, sunny water.
Looking south. From Saturday, 4/23/11.
William Shakespeare's Birthday.

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."

I hope you are right, old dude, I hope you are right.

More Misery

High winds, endless rain (sometimes frozen), winter goes on and on (I forgot to mention that it SNOWED yesterday. It melted by noon, but still).

Layers

Blue sky above blue-green stripe above brown-gray water above sandy beach above green grass. This was taken from a waterfront park, one where I don't think I've been for a photo before this one. Hmmm. From Sunday, 4/17/11.

Twilight Blue

This is an old photo from 3/19/11, the second evening of the legendary giant moon. Unfortunately, it was very cloudy and the moon was hidden. But it still cast enough light to create this really interesting layered blue shot. (This is so late because it was on the "good" camera, which I just downloaded today.)