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We spent an afternoon wondering Artist Point in Grand Marais photographing ice.

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Many natural ice sculptures were left from the spray.

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These loose fragments of wind-blown ice look like artic sea stacks.

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I stopped at Tettegouche State Park to photograph the “Sea Stack” on the trail to Shovel Point. An overnight coating of fresh ice provided a great reflection.

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The ice on the rocks makes the “Sea Stack” look a lot like an abstract carving of the face of a shaggy dog.

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I always enjoy photographing ice-covered rocks of which Lake Superior provides many.

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This photo was taken directly towards the sun. The water looks like thousands of glittering diamonds.

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Sunset

The ice sculptures that you see in these photos have now disappeared due to warmer temperatures and over an inch of rain that we received midweek. We got to see a great sunset as the last of the clouds passed over Lake Superior on Thursday evening.

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