Waves on Lake Michigan

The waves keep rolling in.  I painted this water color of the beach in Lake Michigan.  Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are very high this year.  Geologically, this is the same lake at the same sea level.  We have had snow and then it melted.  Snow again that melted.  We are waiting to see what the Winter Solstice Dec. 21 brings us.


Surfers are still enjoying these conditions.  Read more about all of these freshwater seas in my book:  The Dynamic Great Lakes available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Books A Million, The Bookman, Hostetters in Grand Haven and many other fine bookstores.

water color by Barbara Spring

Door Peninsula Wisconsin

Lake Michigan on the Wisconsin side of the lake shows layers of limestone and a beach that does not show when water levels are high. I took this photo on the Door Peninsula. Here you may find fossils embedded in the sedimentary rocks. It's a great place to explore.

Wisconsin's Door Peninsula on Lake Michigan

I enjoyed visiting the Door Peninsula and comparing it to the Bruce Peninsula. These are part of the Niagara Escarpment.   Both have layers of limestone, evidence of ancient seas. I took this photo when the lake level was low exposing rocks, fossils and allowing plants to grow that are seldom seen. It's all part of the natural Great Lakes water cycle.  The lakes are low again this year. The lakes rise and fall in cycles.  This is normal.

There were so many shipwrecks off of the Door Peninsula that Great Lakes sailors called it Death's Door. Now it is simply the Door Peninsula, a place where you will see eagles soaring over Lake Michigan's waters and trees hanging onto the rock for dear life.