People are not the only ones that like to stroll and play on the beach on a warm summer day as this cutie was pushing sand with its nose creating its version of sand castles and rolling in the wet sand and rocks.
Beach Dog
Picture of the Day for May 11, 2016
The below normal temperatures yesterday would have made a chilly walk along the lake shore and it is not a lot warmer today yet. And you would want to be quick grabbing a pretty rock out of the water since the water temperature is only 37ºF today.
Chilly Beach Walk
Picture of the Day for March 31, 2016
I’m not sure if March is going out like a lion or lamb. It is above freezing, but it is a dark and wet day so not very springlike at all. With all the rain the last two days, I don’t see the ducks in the pond today as they probably went somewhere dry instead. At least the wind is blowing roaring like a lion as it did the previous night but no sunny walks on the beach today.
Wet Walk on the Beach
Picture of the Day for March 3, 2016
If the seagulls where standing around my pond this morning, their feet would be frozen in ice and any sandy beach area would be snow covered. Eventually spring will come and the birds can run up and down the beach ahead of the waves.
Seagulls with Wet Feet
Picture of the Day for February 3, 2016
These seagulls braved the waves and high winds while on the shore of Lake Superior during a nor’easter but at least they weren’t out in the blizzard yesterday with blowing snow.
Seagulls Braving Nor’easter
Picture of the Day for January 9, 2016
Even after shoveling this morning, my driveway is covered with snow and no gravel is showing anymore (and probably won’t reappear until spring). I sure wouldn’t mind seeing some pretty rocks on a beach and watching some waves roll in right now instead of watching the temperature fall to the sub-zero range and listening to the snow squeak under my feet.
Wishing for a Warm Day at the Beach
Picture of the Day for November 27, 2015
The shiny, sparkly glare from the water and ripply ridges of sand under the water surface is a better scene than the glare from ice and bumpy waves of snow covering the ground I saw today.
Bumpily Beach
Picture of the Day for November 9, 2015
The freighter, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, left the port of Superior, Wisconsin at 2:15 pm on the afternoon of November 9, 1975 with a cargo of 26,116 of taconite ore pellets headed for towards Detroit, Michigan. The freighter sank the next day, with the loss of the entire crew, during a Lake Superior storm when she was about 15 miles from reaching the Whitefish Point Light.
Didn’t Reach Whitefish Point
Picture of the Day for October 6, 2015
Landscapes can change in a very short distance and it is interesting how one beach may be all sand and around the bend it is solid rocks or small rocks. And if there are small rocks on the beach, there has to be at least one “pretty” rock that hops into your pocket although sometime that pretty one may be elusive when a wave takes it out of your reach.
A Pretty Rock
Picture of the Day for December 12, 2014
You sometimes hear the term ‘sands of time’, an English idiom relating the passage of time to the sand in an hourglass and that time is a finite commodity which is gradually running out.
The phase ‘Footprints on the sands of time’ was used in a poem called A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
On a calm day, your footprints in the sand might last a while but on a stormy day, the next wave erases all evidence of your passage on the beach.
Sands of Time
