Winter has been gnawing on us since 2010 opened. Snow every day and temperatures have reduced themselves to a single digit at times. With that said, it's been a pretty mild winter...and beautiful. The snow shovelling has been made easy by the fact that it has been coming down in its light fluffy state, so that even though it might be 8 inches deep it weighs no more that the arm-pit feathers of angels. The beach front is now locked up in ice dunes now, but I must admit, I thought the pounding that Boreas was giving us would have resulted in some monumental ice dunes, but this year's batch appears to be pretty modest. Once the lakefront is stilled by the ice, work on the beach sculptures becomes more ethereal. You can spend a couple of hours working and not hear a singel sound. No surf, no gulls, no people and every potential aural disruption is muffled by a two foot blanket of powdered snow. It's like I imagine space must sound.
Here are a couple shots of the last remaining wave crest rising from the snow. It reminds me of Hokusai's great wave. This was the first and only day in the first ten days of January that we saw the sun. It was worth the wait.
With the destruction of the end of the wall, I salvaged the larger stones for resetting in the spring when I can put the retaining wall/bench back up
This is what remains of the Stonewave as of this week. I am taking down the section that was undermined by the storm. When it is down. I hope to get a sense of what will be born out of the ashes.
With the "junk" stone I have been building a small wall at the outlet of a gully eroded into the bluff to keep the soil from washing away into the lake each time it rains. We'll have to see what it turns into by the end of the winter.
So this is the first two weeks of the new year, in stone.
Here are a couple shots of the last remaining wave crest rising from the snow. It reminds me of Hokusai's great wave. This was the first and only day in the first ten days of January that we saw the sun. It was worth the wait.
With the destruction of the end of the wall, I salvaged the larger stones for resetting in the spring when I can put the retaining wall/bench back up
This is what remains of the Stonewave as of this week. I am taking down the section that was undermined by the storm. When it is down. I hope to get a sense of what will be born out of the ashes.
With the "junk" stone I have been building a small wall at the outlet of a gully eroded into the bluff to keep the soil from washing away into the lake each time it rains. We'll have to see what it turns into by the end of the winter.
So this is the first two weeks of the new year, in stone.
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