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
Fishermen head out onto Lake Superior for a morning catch. Other than the risk of the ice pack floating away from the shore, the fun of a morning catch on Lake Superior is nothing new and enjoyed by many local anglers. Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you, I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8 God has provided us a bountiful harvest of fish from Lake Superior over the ages and will continue to do so in the future.
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!
