Late winter ice shards are the attraction of the north shore of Lake Superior during late February. We have gained an extra hour of daylight already since December, and the hope of warming weather brings hope to the heart. But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Romans 8:25 Hope is a driving force in life, and if will look around us, we get filled with just enough for today, and that's enough.
Built in the days when the fishing industry thrived on the North Shore, this rugged structure protected the nets and other fishermen’s livelihood tools through even the fiercest of storms. The fishermen who built this hardy building to make a living from the big lake had no idea it would eventually become a photography attraction years later. “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ... Matthew 6:25-34
Thick shore ice along Lake Superior creates a beautiful ice cathedral. The broken sheet of ice pushed onshore by the winds and waved of late February creates some stunning structures of clear ice. “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail... Job 38:22 The ice sculptures are crafted by the hand of God overnight and are new each day!
