Sun setting at Bluefin Bay, on Lake Superior.

Icicles hanging down in a small ice cave on the shores of Lake Superior–when the shoreline freezes, you can walk along it and see the ice and snow hanging off the bluffs.

A view after climbing up the side of the river banks at Temperance River State Park. The river isn’t quite completely frozen over!

Sun shining on the water at Sugarloaf Cove on Lake Superior.

Ice building up on the rocks at Lake Superior.

This is at the edge of Lake Superior; when it freezes up, sometimes the tides will break up the ice into beautiful piles of shards.

Looking down at the mostly frozen Temperance River in northern MN.

Ice piled up on rocks and a small pier in northern MN.

Fir trees in northern Minnesota.