Steve Brimm is known for the art he creates with his outstanding photography skills, but did you know that he dreams of exotic landscapes in worlds unknown, only to wake and find them in a puddle outside his door? That’s what he said when he posted today’s frozen puddle photos. I absolutely love that thought of dreaming about bigger things and then discovering that it’s really the little things that surround you that make your world beautiful. It also warms the cockles of my heart that Steve not only creates beautiful art for us, but he recognizes it in nature and captures scenes like these to share with us, too.

Now admit it...didn’t these ice puddle photos bring you back to your childhood when stepping on the ice to break it and hear it crunch was really exciting? I know they did for me when I saw Steve’s last photo. I asked Steve the same question and he said that it was actually a deer that stepped in that ice puddle, but he said he did his own crunching, with his car, too! Ha, ha...

Let’s check out the Portage Lake Golf Course in Houghton, with a brief fly-by. It’s a pre-season check to see what the course is looking like and if rounds of golf are not too far off as long as the weather continues the way it has been.

Mesmerizing pics for sure. And Mary, I recall stepping on puddle ice to hear it break. We used to call it "windowpane" ice.
BTW, Happy St Urho's Day everyone!

These pictures are very cool. I
totally remember stepping on them.
You just couldn't resist them.
Steve's a lucky man to live where
he lives.

AMEN Deb...he is one Blessed man.

I still wanna see food coloring on ice! lol

Happy St. Urho's day...wear your purple today and
your green tomorrow~

Hi
Today I went to a gem & mineral show here in
Jackson, Michigan. The third and fourth photos
remind me of some of the stones I saw.

Speaking of Jackson, the local golf course has been
open for a couple of weeks. Which IS unusually
early.

Did you know Golf was invented in Scotland? And it
stands for

G entlemen
O nly
L adies
F orbidden

I had always heard that about golf too, Donna, but a while back someone was asked and it turned out to be a different source of the name:

The modern game of golf is generally considered to be a Scottish invention. A spokesman for The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, one of the oldest Scottish golf organizations, said "Stick and ball games have been around for many centuries, but golf as we know it today, played over 18 holes, clearly originated in Scotland."[15][16] The word golf, or in Scots gowf [gʌuf], is usually thought to be a Scots alteration of Dutch "colf" or "colve" meaning "stick, "club", "bat", itself related to the Proto-Germanic language *kulth- as found in Old Norse kolfr meaning "bell clapper", and the German Kolben meaning "mace or club"

From “Scottish Golf History”:

A common misconception is that the word
GOLF is an acronym for
Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. This is a word
20th century joke and definitely not true.

It is now generally accepted that the 'golf' is
derived from an old word meaning 'club',
though this in turn may have older cognate
roots dating back to ancient times.
We Scotts love the wee lasses.

Nice pix BTW! Are you sure they weren’t taken
from the ISS? Because they’re out of this world.