.closed for the season., photo by tEdGuY49.
According to the tags, this photo was taken along US-23 in (or near) the town of Oscoda on the Lake Huron shore.
I kind of sat on this photo for a couple weeks as I had just blogged one from Ted. Looking back through the pictures from Ted that we’ve featured, I realize that he has a special gift for seeing the bright things.
Almost Frozen, photo by suesue2.
Sue says that Stony Creek Lake (at the Huron-Clinton Stony Creek Metropark is not quite ready for ice skating or ice fishing.
“Just because a lake or stream is frozen doesn’t mean the ice is safe,” said Lt. Creig Grey, marine safety and education supervisor for the DNR Law Enforcement Division. “Ice fishing has its own set of safety rules that if not followed, can cause a day of fishing to end in tragedy.”
According to Grey, you can’t always tell the strength of ice simply by its look, its thickness, the temperature or whether or not it is covered with snow. New ice, he said, generally is much stronger than old ice; a couple of inches of new clear ice may be strong enough to support you, though a foot of old, air-bubbled ice will not.
“Clear ice that has a bluish tint is the strongest,” Grey said. “Ice formed by melted and refrozen snow appears milky, is very porous and very weak.”
Untitled, photo by Rhonda_Marie.
Last weekend, the Exposure.Detroit group on Flickr held a photography meetup at Cranbrook. Here is a link to many more great photos taken at Cranbrook.
Cranbrook House and Gardens in Bloomfield Hills is the heart of the over 300-acre National Historic Landmark Cranbrook campus. The English Arts and Crafts-style Cranbrook House was designed by Detroit architect Albert Kahn in 1908 for Detroit News publisher George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. The home is the oldest surviving manor in the metro Detroit area. According to the Cranbrook House and Gardens site:
The Booths commissioned the finest artisans, craftsmen and studios of the period to furnish the house with handcrafted furniture, tapestries, tiles, stained and leaded glass, and other works of fine and decorative art.
The 40 acres of gardens that surround Cranbrook House were originally designed by George Booth to entice visitors to savor the serenity of the spring and summer months. From the symmetry of the Sunken Garden to the scent of the herbaceous garden to the casual beauty of the bog garden, there is something to capture everyone’s interest. Sculpture, fountains and architectural fragments enhance the setting with spacious lawns, specimen trees, and a lake stretching out beyond the fieldstone walls.
Also see Cranbrook’s History in the Cranbrook Archives and How one man’s bad luck paved way for creation of Cranbrook from the Detroit News Rearview Mirror. Also see this map of the Cranbrook area with geotagged photos.
Old Crystal Lake Trout Ice Angler, photo by UpNorth Memories.
This photo is part of a neat set of photos titled Older Benzie County Fishing Memories. If old photos are something you enjoy, check out Don’s astonishing collection of old northern Michigan postcards.
For a while, it looked like most lakes in Michigan would need to dig into the archives to get ice this winter. However, as Eric Sharp writes, the Iceman has (finally) cometh.
Here’s a photo from a few years ago of Mt. Bohemia, a ski area located on the Keewenaw Peninsula near Copper Harbor. Eric has several more photos of Mt. Bohemia that you’ll want to check out.
With a hefty vertical and a ton of back country options, Mt. Bohemia has a well-earned reputation as Michigan’s most challenging ski area. Check their web site for a great extreme skiing photo gallery!
Ice Macro, photo by photoqueen1234
Of course, this photo looks great larger … and Toni has a few more like it.
Early Morning Ice in the Law Quad, photo by bleeding.patriot.
The photographer writes Ann Arbor has been hit by several days worth of freezing rain. Nearly 1/4 inch of ice has accumulated on the trees, creating a surrealistic winter effect.
Here are a whole bunch more photos of Michigan’s January 2007 ice storm and you can read more about the impact in Winter hits home, with a vengeance in the Detroit News.
Solitude, photo by wizardkitten.
From a foggy day in January of 2006 January of 2005 and also from a great set of photos titled Michigan, My Michigan.
ice forms, photo by taterfalls.
Taterfalls (Tate King) says that this photo is of bushes that have been sprayed by crashing Lake Michigan waves at Pt. Betsie.
And speaking of Muskegon bald eagles, which we were very recently, he has a great shot there too!
Michigan in Pictures 