Winter Came

Rochester Harbor Lighthouse is on the end of a long pier. In the whipping negative temperature windchills, we ventured to it as if on another more brutal planet, one that would help prepare me for the deep freeze of Fairbanks. There it is waiting…

Along the way, the mouth of Genesee River on the shore of Lake Ontario, full of ice balls

The walkway’s fencing was thickened with ice, mounds of it–doing what it will

The lighthouse

Now at the Charlotte Genesee Lighthouse. Not as exciting but still beautiful in the winter air

The pretty Durand Eastman Park & Beach we hit in October looks drastically different.

Lake Ontario’s icebergs

I kept imagining being submerged in the icy cold waters

So much that I didn’t trust myself at the edge…

Ice caves

Lake effect chill is pretty impressive