High Water Mark

                               

This is a recent favorite photograph that I only got around to posting tonight.  So many things to photograph, so little time.  So I should be talking about artistic things, but instead I will talk about how this scene came about.  The water in the harbor is not freezing, so it is warmer than 32 degrees F.  But when this photograph was taken, it was bitter cold around here and the winds were howling one night and the temperature of the wind was about 20 degrees.  So the howling, cold wind made large waves And then the wind blew the seawater off the tops of the waves and then that spray ended up on the rocks.  Think about all night long.  But then when the wind died down, and the tide came up, the warmer water melted the ice on the rocks that was submerged in the water at high tide.  The result?  A perfect line on the bottom of of the ice.  Cool, huh?