Lake Huron - "Lake Huron rolls..."
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Another shot from the beach here on Lake Huron. If you are curious where this lovely location is check out the geotoag.
Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday
The winters bring on the usual challenges of surviving the cold and walking on uneven pathways after a good snowstorm. This year we are hearing lots about a break in the supply chain of our goods due to COVID complications, like workers getting sick and companies not being able to get enough staff to work. Here on the Great Lakes, we are very aware of supply ships that have to deal with waiting while out on the lake for an ice breaker to clear a path for it to come into a harbour. Can you imagine if any of the crew get sick while out there? This is a fence line leading to the shore of Lake Huron with the Canadian Steamship Frontenac anchored in the distance. This fence Friday is a good day to remind ourselves to consume less and share with others.
This is our favourite place to swim, just a ten minute walk south down the shore from our cottage. Glenn named it when he "found" it the summer we bought the cottage... "Mum, I found it, I found the Centre of the Universe!" Well, it deserves its title for its majesty and danger. This is a famous family picture below with Glenn and Theodora, BC, on a very safe day... once one has figured out how to get to the diving rock!
I spent a lot of time trying to capture the turbulence of the water coming in from two directions before finally giving up. Perhaps with some elevation it would be more apparent.
Fort Gratiot Lighthouse is the oldest surviving lighthouse in Michigan. It's an active lighthouse at the entrance to the St. Clair River from Lake Huron.
The original much smaller tower built in 1825 collapsed in 1828, and was replaced in 1829 by a taller tower, that was expanded in 1862 to its current 82-foot (25m) height.
arrived at the same time as several ice fishermen were headed out for the day, last of the sunrise as the clouds took over and flat light prevailed.
This is the same range light as shown in my last post but taken on a different day. It shows how the wind can whip up in a fury and change the landscape to a very different mood. It pushes ice up along the shore. In this case the waves were being pushed into a narrow opening in the ice and creating a huge spout of water crystals. If you got close enough to the "spray" , you would feel the tiny shards of ice falling on you. It's no wonder there are pieces of the range light structure missing every season.
Rode to Mackinaw last weekend and noticed these guys taking a quick dip in Lake Huron. Crazy...............
If we remain in our last revelation and grow content with where we are at, at that point we die. Just as Christ expresses Himself in Creation, ever expanding, always in motion and sound, so are we to be continuously in revelation of His majesty and growing in our relationship to Christ.
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another mood of Lake Huron (they're infinite) at The Centre of the Universe!
Shades of Doris Lessing's The Cleft
If I could master my dreams and thoughts I would probably be somewhere else. I am glad that I cannot because I like it right here. No matter what might be wrong, this is alraight.
Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday
After the rain storm I manged to get back out to capture several more shots at Port Elgin, Ontario.
"Thank you to everyone below for your wonderful comments"
I like that this looks like an oil painting, but I still like the Microsoft Bing (first one) the best.
It was getting late when I took this shot into the sunlight. I liked the composition but there really wasn't that much color in the sky to make it stand out. A B&W edit wasn't quite what I wanted either. Playing a bit further with the Adobe Lightroom white balance eyedropper tool, I clicked on the fence rail visible to the left and this was the result. It may not quite be representative of the actual scene but I'll chalk that up to artistic license.
Lake Huron – HOW DO I LOVE YOU?
How do I love you? Let me count the ways.
I love you to your horizon and beyond
Where my soul is healed and where we have our bond
In my Being’s birth and my Ending’s blaze.
I love you to the setting of everyday's
Sun and rising of moonbeam and starshine.
I love you One-ly swimming in your wine
and wildly when your sky divides the waves.
I love you bittersweetly and offer you
Ancient and new grief, and test with each new rod.
I love you with a love I find as God
While you sustain me, flitting from my rule,
Embodied in your molecules – I will
Return to your love when city life is still.
I wrote this about "the great womb" about 5 years ago. Even though I can't go anymore, Spindrift lives within me. And knowing how much our daughters and grandchildren love Spindrift is a wonderful consolation to me. Spindrift is 240 kms directly north of here... my goal is to try one night if this weather ever cools down!
Whiskey Harbour, Lake Huron, the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario
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