Winter Rain

 Winter rains turn to ice and snow.

Hoar Frost

Wood Duck with Mallards

Late Winter Sunrise

Sunshine and Ice along the Lake Erie Shore

Frosted Spider Web

American Goldfinch

Lake Erie Ice Volcano

A cryovolcano, better known as an ice volcano along the Lake Erie shoreline.  During the winter and early spring, high winds create these cone-shaped ice formations that allow water, slush and sand to blow up through a hole in the center of the cone.

Otherworldly

Beavers on Ice...

at sunset.

Niagara Falls State Park

Trees frosted by the mist from Niagara Falls looked spectacular today against a clear blue sky.

Frosted Forest

"I realize there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go."  ~  Jeffrey McDaniel

Lake Erie Ice Dunes at Sunset

Last Days of Autumn

"Late Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end." ~ Remy de Gourmont

Bonaparte's Gulls

Bonaparte's Gulls in breeding plumage flying over some of the remaining chunks of ice left on Lake Erie.  The gulls are headed to their far northern breeding areas of isolated taiga forests in Canada and Alaska.

Fire and Ice

Tonight's sunset (above) and the post-sunset glow (below).

Herring Gull

There continues to be quite a bit of ice cover on the eastern portion of Lake Erie. 

Searching for Spring...

Handsome Mallard Drake

Frozen Lake Erie