Posts tagged lake.

Sunset on a frozen lake.

Central Minnesota.

Ice fisherman on Lobster Lake near Alexandria, Minnesota.

Normally, at this time of year, people would have no qualms about driving 3/4 ton pickups out on the ice to their fish houses, but unseasonably warm winter weather in Minnesota has left the ice much thinner than normal.

After sunset on a frozen Minnesota lake.

Autumn’s days are numbered in Minnesota lake country. Geese wing southward as a pretty fall sunset caps off the day.

Late Autumn, City Park, Denver.

Rocky Mountain sunset.

City Park, Denver.

Fall sunset this week at City Park in Denver.

Crescent moon on a Minnesota lake.

Crescent moonset.

Pelican Lake, Minnesota.

Common Loon, state bird of Minnesota.

Some internesting loon facts here, and you can find their four distinctive calls here.

Hearing the haunting sounds of these birds at night while sleeping beside a Minnesota lake is an indelible North Country experience.

Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

Sundown on an ice-covered Minnesota lake.

There were dark, low clouds and blustery conditions all day, but right before day’s end a brilliant yellow sun emerged below the cloud deck and above the horizon to briefly illuminate the frozen lake.

On Pelican Lake near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

A shaft of morning sunlight illuminates the surface of a calm Lake Dillon while dark, gathering clouds portend the first major snowstorm of the season in Colorado High Country. Higher elevations are predicted to get 14” to 24” (356 mm to 610 mm) of snow. 

Near Dillon, Colorado.

It’s time for one last boat ride of the season on a Minnesota Lake.

Crescent moonset on Pelican Lake, Minnesota. Photographed about a half hour after sunset on a warm, calm fall evening. The loons were calling all night. I think the were saying goodbye like they did at the end of the movie, “On Golden Pond.”


Had dinner and watched the sunset here at The Fireside on Detroit Lakes. I think it should have been called The Waterside.