Sometimes I wonder how it would be to live somewhere so desolate during the winter months. Last week when we went up to the U.P of Michigan we stopped on the way back at the Mission Point Lighthouse. It is out on the Old Mission Peninsula. There isn't much around it. I think how it must have been for the lighthouse keepers in the past to be in such a isolated place, not being able to go anywhere, worrying whether their provisions would carry them through the long winter. I think about what it would be to live in such a place now. Sometimes I think about spending a winter in isolation, wandering out on the land and taking photos. It's just a dream, but still...
This is the view of Lake Michigan. If it was in summer I would be standing in the lake to take this photo. But not now. As far as the eye could see there was snow and ice, perhaps just the beginnings of the unfrozen lake in the distance. It was really cold standing here. The wind was blowing and bitterly cold despite the lovely blue skies and sunshine. So beautiful.
This weekend looks to be changeable weather, another Winter Storm Watch in the making. No sunshine in sight, though we have been treated to plenty in the last couple of days (of course not on the weekend!). We'll try to get out. I will be happy as long as I can take some photos. If nothing else, I shall put out some nuts as a treat to the birds and try to take some fun photos.
Enough rambling...just thinking.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.