This is one of the waterfalls you can see at Tettegouche State Park, in MN. If I recall correctly, this is the tallest waterfall that is entirely in Minnesota (there’s one right on the Canada/MN border that’s a bit taller).
I have a ton of pictures from annual fall trips to northern Minnesota, and most of them feature birch trees. I love the white bark and the yellow leaves, with bright red maples and green pine trees mixed in.
I like that I caught the water crashing, and that you can see the ridges of ice on the rocks. This is from winter of 2013, when Lake Superior was not frozen completely over, so you could photograph nice contrasts of moving water and ice.
This year there was so much ice on Lake Superior that water didn’t get close enough to shore to make beautiful ice bubbles on the rocks. This picture is from 2013–the lake was mostly open, and the waves piled up ice on the rocks.
Both of these pictures were taken in the same place, but perhaps a year or so apart, at Lamb’s Resort on Lake Superior. This is the Cross River, flowing into Lake Superior. I can’t tell if I prefer the cloudy or sunny shot.