February 9, 2019

Frost
The week started off with a couple of warmer days that coated everything with frost.
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Soon the cold came back and all that ice that formed on Lake Superior last week started moving. NE winds has the ice pack slowly headed towards Duluth.
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In the process the pressure breaks the ice into thousands of shards and they start to pile up.
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I put my ice cleats on and walked down the shoreline in Cascade River State Park. Much of the shoreline is covered with a thin layer of ice from the spray so ice cleats are a nice safety measure against falling. Do not walk out on the ice itself as Lake Superior ice is never safe.
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Clear Lake Superior ice has that beautiful blue color when it piles up. The sounds of the ice breaking up is pretty awesome also.
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The only other tracks along the shoreline was a lone wolf that had traveled ahead of me.
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This week’s cold made some of the best window frost on our wood shop.
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The designs are somewhere between an enchanted forest and ferns.
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It always amazes me the shapes that the frost will take.
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Paul Sundberg Photography