Dusted Shoreline

The family, Ben, Marsha, Logan, and Drew Kilpela, went north to Copper Harbor for the New Year, so now I can post some shots from the Keweenaw that are more recent than the one in my last post. Here's a shot from Hunters Point again. This is just outside Copper Harbor itself. Though there has been lots of snowfall and though there is almost two feet of snow on the ground in CH right now, the Lake Superior shoreline was mostly clear. The air temperatures haven't been low enough often enough and Lake Superior has not yet become cold enough to form a lot of ice on the open lake, or even in the harbors of the Keweenaw. Copper Harbor was almost completely open just four days ago (there were two cold nights on January 2 and 3, so things might change). Thus, the shore remains open for the most part all along the Keweenaw Coast. It was a windy and cloudy late afternoon on the day I took this shot (I think it was December 29). It shows a dusting of wind-driven snow on the bedrock and stones not touched by the small Superior waves rolling in.