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Tim Voss > Cut Face Creek; Cook County, Minnesota Most of the year, Cut Face Creek doesn't have a lot of flow. During spring runoff and after a big thunderstorm, however, it can turn into a torrent. Those rare times of heavy flow expose these sandstone cut banks. Sandstone is a rare thing along the North Shore of Lake Superior where nearly all the rock is volcanic with basalt and rhyolite very common. In fact, the sandstone here is made of old rhyolite grains. You can find fossil ripple marks on loose stones. They come from beaches that vanished over a billion years ago.
Tim Voss > Tomobolo; Cook County, Minnesota Tombolos are islands connected to the mainland by a gravel or sandbar. This one is located on Lake Superior several miles northeast of Grand Marais, Minnesota.
Tim Voss > Wave Coming; Tofte, Minnesota One can go through a lot of exposures when shooting waves. This was one of the keepers. It wasn't quite as close as it looks. But one wave did catch a mitten. Fortunately, it was waterproof, but that didn't stop an instant crust of ice from forming around it. Water freezes quickly at ten above. This one came from Temperance River State Park.
Tim Voss > Curling Spray; Grand Marais, Minnesota Temps close to zero Fahrenheit, frost smoke, and a stiff southwest wind make for some interesting possibilities.
Tim Voss > Wave, Rocks and Frost Smoke; Grand Marais, Minnesota Temps close to zero Fahrenheit, frost smoke, and a stiff southwest wind make for some interesting possibilities.
Tim Voss > Mesabi Miner Unloading Coal; Taconite Harbor, Minnesota The Mesabi Miner is another of the 1004 foot lake boats. She was built in 1977 and christened in Duluth, Minnesota. You can see a bit of her self-unloading boom swung to the starboard side to discharge coal for the power plant. For more info on the Mesabi Miner, have a look at: http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/mesabi.htm Nobody lives at Taconite Harbor anymore. It was once a taconite loading facility with a small company town. The loading facility shut down many years ago. Nowadays, it serves as a coal fired power plant.
Tim Voss > Dusk, West Breakwater; Grand Marais, Minnesota A somewhat less photographed view of the Grand Marais Harbor. It came on the end of a wind-whipped day. The white on the rocks is rime ice from the morning's sea smoke.
Tim Voss > Winter Sunset; Grand Marais, Minnesota Photographing sunsets isn't something I do. The orange sky, the arabesque of the hills, the patterns and reflections in the ice made this one different. So here it is. By the bye, the hills are known as the Sawtooth Mountains. They haven't been mountains for on towards a billion years, but the sawtooth part of the name fits.
Tim Voss > Harbor Ice; Grand Marais, Minnesota A stiff southwest wind and its attendant waves broke up the harbor ice and pushed it towards shore. That made this shot easy. How cold was it? So cold that ducks froze to the beach the day before. I was told they were rescued with hot water and a chisel.
Cut Face Creek; Cook County, Minnesota

Most of the year, Cut Face Creek doesn't have a lot of flow. During spring runoff and after a big thunderstorm, however, it can turn into a torrent. Those rare times of heavy flow expose these sandstone cut banks. Sandstone is a rare thing along the North Shore of Lake Superior where nearly all the rock is volcanic with basalt and rhyolite very common. In fact, the sandstone here is made of old rhyolite grains. You can find fossil ripple marks on loose stones. They come from beaches that vanished over a billion years ago.
Tim Voss > Cut Face Creek; Cook County, Minnesota Most of the year, Cut Face Creek doesn't have a lot of flow. During spring runoff and after a big thunderstorm, however, it can turn into a torrent. Those rare times of heavy flow expose these sandstone cut banks. Sandstone is a rare thing along the North Shore of Lake Superior where nearly all the rock is volcanic with basalt and rhyolite very common. In fact, the sandstone here is made of old rhyolite grains. You can find fossil ripple marks on loose stones. They come from beaches that vanished over a billion years ago.
Cut Face Creek; Cook County, Minnesota

Most of the year, Cut Face Creek doesn't have a lot of flow. During spring runoff and after a big thunderstorm, however, it can turn into a torrent. Those rare times of heavy flow expose these sandstone cut banks. Sandstone is a rare thing along the North Shore of Lake Superior where nearly all the rock is volcanic with basalt and rhyolite very common. In fact, the sandstone here is made of old rhyolite grains. You can find fossil ripple marks on loose stones. They come from beaches that vanished over a billion years ago.
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