• Monday-What'sUP July 17 - 01:09 am

If you haven't already felt the cold of the wintry weather we've been having here in the U.P., maybe today's trio of icy scenes will give you that shivery feeling! Let me set the scene for the first two shots… Picture in your mind, Z-Man lying on the cold icy shoreline, first snapping a close-up of a beautiful icy sculpture. Then he slides himself just a bit closer to the edge, just waiting for the perfect wave to come along and SPLASH!! In case you're wondering, yes, he did get wet! :-> In the third picture we get a somewhat larger perspective of the frigid blue edges of Lake Superior, compliments of Lee Rowe, who looks like she may have stayed a bit dryer by staying on shore!

More of Z-Man's icy pursuits in What'sUP

WOW!

At first I didn't catch the fact that Mr. Z caught the wave smack on the end of his lens (middle photo). Must have been a cold day to instantly crystalize on the glass!

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

The photo of the wave looks like a map of the lower 48 {with a little of Canada thrown in!}

Have a blessed day everyone!

What truly awesome pictures! I guess I don't see the cold, I see the beauty. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome, Mr. Z

Good Job, Mr. Z, brrrrrrrrr!

Does this mean its too cold to snow today?

Excellent photo's Z-Man !!!!!!!! Good Morning all, it's 17 degress in and around the Lansing area as of 8:08am. Have a wonderful day.

Beautiful pics Z-man! Did you learn from Dan Urbanski?

Top of the morning to ya. Great pictures. It's 25 and some light snow in Jacobsville. I see a lot of those ice sculptures when I go for a walk. Keep the picture coming

Hei Uno, how's Duo? Say paaiva to da rocks for me.

What is the story on the little picture? Looks like a kid taking a header into open water.

More chilling photos from the GREAT UP. Here in the NW its been so warm many of my bulbs are sticking their heads above ground, my nieghbor has a bloom on a rose bush. Still we wish we were back home in the Copper Country.

If y'all like that sort of thing, don't miss Ken Libbrecht's talk on snowflakes tomorrow. He's a physicist at Caltech, and he seems to know as much about snow as any Yooper. It's Michigan Tech Great Events lecture:

http://www.greatevents.mtu.edu/04-05/gevents/libbrecht.php

Remarkable photos, Z-man!
But, now that I'm completely chilled, will someone please post a picture of a warm, sunny, Big lake? Th-th-th-thanks!

I picked the 3rd one for wallpaper today. Ever so hard to choose! Thanks, Mr. Z-man!

John Van Dyke: the little picture is from the polar bear dive. See all the pictures in z-man's album.

John Van Dyke: there's a link on today's What's UP.

I sure miss da big lake eh?

Sitting here shivvvvering, looking at those 8 pics of crazed people going into the water, now I want to see the pics of them each coming out of the water. Oh my gosh! What prizes did they get this year? Wasn't it bikini's last year?

WOW...great pics, Z...Mary, I'd like to listen to their comments when they come OUT of the water...NEVER AGAIN, maybe...But when you're that young..."you can take anything"...right??? ~~~smile~~~

With all that bone chilling cold it's time for a good stillwaters pasty with Toivo and Eino's pasty sauce. Excellent pics.

Nice to see what it's like back home. I just took a shower outside and wandered over to the tangerine tree and ate a couple of them. Yummy! It's still about 80 here at 5:45 in the afternoon in Honaunau, about 20 miles south of Kona on Hawaii. Sorry about that.