A nice wintry tree for the first day of December!

There’s so much more purples and pinks in the sky this time of year!

A dancing statue on the grounds of Chankaska Creek Winery.

Beautiful, bare trees out at Chankaska Creek Winery.

Winter has come a bit early here in Minnesota this year!

In summer it’s so difficult to remember how cold it gets in winter.

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.

This is a picture of the Bluefin Bay resort, one of our favorite places to stay near Lutsen, MN. This shot was taken while walking along the path to the outdoor hot tub!