Location Taken: Caseville, MI, USA
Date Taken: December 2008
Yes, this is actually a photograph. I did not in fact just patch together two monochrome gradients in Photoshop. This is an accurate photo.
I took this photo at my paternal Grandmother’s home on the Thumb of Michigan. She lives in a cottage on the shore of Lake Huron, complete with beach access.
Unlike just about all the other retirees who live in this area, she stays in Michigan all year round.
During the winter, snow falls and the freshwater lakes freeze up some. This was one of the years when it was frozen all the way to the horizon. Add in a gray, overcast sky, threatening with the standard snow, and you get scenes like this.
Quiet, lonely, peaceful.
Quite pleasant, really.
I saw it as two grayish rectangles at first. But then I saw the small details and the label. I remember that view from the window. We didn’t go out on the ice too often because it seldom froze thick enough. I liked it best when there were still waves in the distance, but everything really was gray.