Although, yesterday, when I was driving to work - coming over the hill on 41 and into Marquette - the lake was such a dull blue-gray that you could not see where the big lake ended and where the sky began. The big lake-sky camouflage in front of me was dreary that morning. As I got closer and down to my office and saw the lake up close, it was flat and still, like glass, but dark, almost black. The words that sprung to mind were depressed, morbid....watery grave. I thought of off of the seamen, the crews, the captains - all of the lives that she has claimed over the years and kept in her depths in a breathless hug. It was cold and dark, the way she looked yesterday morning. After work was a different story. I drove down Lakeshore and was amazed and in awe as I went past Wright and Hawley streets. Just a few days ago, closed down to large waves coming over the rocks and onto the roadway. The trees left standing were all frozen in time...covered in ice - as each wave and each icy breath she blew froze the trees in a magnificent pattern. It was like she made time stand still. See some of the pictures below. She really is magnificent. Off to Presque Isle where she spoke to me, a different lady, a different language than she is in the summer. The wind was icy, bitter cold on my cheeks, my eyes watering just from the air she breathed. But I smiled, and laughed and took pictures as more proof of her capturing time was scattered here and there in icy tree sculptures, locked in mid-dance.
That was my yesterday at the lake. What a wonderful way to end a blissful year. So many wonderful things have happened in my life this year. It started with January 1st, 2015, when my love ran out to the car after me when I was leaving his apartment last year, and told me he had fallen in love with me. It was the happiest moment in my life that I can remember in a very very long time. Then my move up here - I am blessed to with someone I adore and love to the ends of the earth....who treats me like his equal...who I gave my heart to. This move has been nothing but positive for me. And my daughter got married this year. I am overjoyed at how happy she is with her new husband and I could not ask for a better son-in-law. I hope for nothing but love and happiness for them. I got to see my dad and his girlfriend, and most of the brothers and sister over the holidays. Tony's sister had a brand new baby girl, little Evelyn...2015 was full of love and happiness for us all.
Who cannot deny that frigid beauty? She is cold. She is hypnotizing. She catches your breath. Come and see her someday...
To a great 2016 to you all -
~S - cold and loving it
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