What a beautiful Easter day! Our little Lutheran church was full today - people with their families and guests, lots of Easter lilies adorned the altar, and we even had a choir singing. Pastor Nancy reminded us about the Good News of Easter and Jesus' words, "Do not be afraid," that God is with us, words that we can remember when fears overwhelm us. Happy Easter!
Then after my Easter nap, we headed down to the beach to see how it looked up close and to see what kind of driftwood had collected over the winter. We needed our winter boots to get through the snow leading to the beach. It was kind of a jumbled up mess, but a few interesting pieces revealed themselves.
And there were some REALLY nice larger pieces like those below--great for garden art! I don't know the specifics, but I think there is some law about removing items from beaches like this. Lucky for us we don't have a larger vehicle. Keeps us out of trouble!
Then we walked way out on the pier. We realized that we don't usually walk out to the very end of the pier. Somehow it seems a little more secure when one side still has ice out to the end and the other side--the channel side--was calm and clear as glass. And it wasn't windy. It was even a little eerie for that big lake to be so calm, punctuated only with a chunk of ice here and there and some ducks. Here are some pictures.
All the ice that the fishing boat was going through yesterday is gone today.
Facing east, lots of little "icebergs," and a shadow of the fog horn/beacon at the end of the pier.
Cold ducks, and more ice out in the distance.
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And this is our new little red squirrel friend who figured out how to leap up to the bird feeder hanging on the window. May he never find his way into our house!
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