Since yesterday I referenced the opening which I walked through, I figured I post the tunnel which cut through to the other side of the rock cliff.
Through the Ice Tunnel
Picture of the Day for February 28, 2014
I love the golden glow which appears when the sun begins to set but the golden moment doesn’t last long and I’m not always in the spot I want to be when that moment arrives. And when I shoot landscape photos, I try not to have man-made objects in them or people, but photographs don’t always give you the scale without a reference or more views. This cave went very deep which isn’t seen in this view and with a very high ceiling. The little, icy opening on the left side was big enough for me to walk through so it would have been a long drop if I fell off the top when I hiked on the ridge of the caves in the summer. But then I didn’t know I wasn’t walking on solid ground so not sure I will feel so safe to walk on top again since I saw recent slabs that have fallen from the ceiling and sides.
Golden Cave
Picture of the Day for February 27, 2014
This cute little barn is starting to feel its age which a few boards weathering away and the windows looking a little sad. It probably heard the cold forecast as the arctic air is making me sad too.
A Little Sad
Picture of the Day for February 26, 2014
Today is another cold, crispy day with some snow blowing across the fields and the snow can really blow across the surface of Lake Superior with very few things to slow the snow down. When I was inside this ice cave, my glasses and camera fogged up since it was warmer near the ice than being in the open air so you know it was cold outside.
I enjoyed the view from here and took several pictures, but I was really delaying getting down out of the cave since I was trying to figure out how to gracefully get down on my butt and slide out. At least the snow pants were slippery and so I slide out easy, but maybe too easy and too quickly!
Mouth of an Ice Cave
Picture of the Day for February 25, 2014
I saw this pheasant fly up to the trees and he is smart to get up off the frozen snow, but he probably is wishing he would have migrated south this winter as it has been a long, snowy, cold one. Ring-necked Pheasants sometimes cope with extreme cold by simply remaining dormant for days at a time.
The powerful breast muscles deliver bursts of power that allow the birds to escape trouble in a hurry, flushing nearly vertically into the air and reaching speeds of nearly 40 miles per hour.
Ring-necked Pheasant
Picture of the Day for February 24, 2014
I much more prefer seeing ice on these cave walls than on the roads I have been driving on. The ice formations on the caves of the south shore of Lake Superior are various colors including clear ice several inches thick.
And some of the cave tunnels reminded me of the Olympic luge track except I didn’t have a sled so in some of the tunnels, I just had to sit on my butt to slide out, but the caves were memorable to see.
Icy Tunnels
Picture of the Day for February 23, 2014
The two common events of this winter seems to be cloudy and snowy or sunny and frigid. And I don’t know which is the greater evil since one means messy roads and lots of shoveling and the other means high energy bills and frozen pipes. It might be pretty to some but I’m ready to see some pretty spring flowers.
The cold sun is shining above Norton Lutheran Church between Wheeler and Colfax, Wisconsin, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in September 2011.
Norton Lutheran Church
Picture of the Day for February 22, 2014
I think these trees are as weary as I am with this winter. Laden down with heavy snow once again, these poor limbs might never reach towards the sky again.
Snow Laden Limbs
Picture of the Day for February 21, 2014
These hanging ice stalactites almost looked like the snow that has coming down overnight and hard to see anything but white.
Ice Stalactites
Picture of the Day for February 20, 2014
I don’t think this ‘Ruby’ will be taking her love to town, and I don’t think she will make it out to sea either with the lake frozen. And with a foot of snow coming, she will be buried a little more in her resting place.
Ruby
