It had been a very snowy couple of weeks prior to this visit to Creek Ridge County Park, south of Michigan City, Indiana, on February 6th, 2009. Some of the pictures I took of the 67 taken that day showed snow on top of the stumps of trees over a foot high. But it’s February and the rays of the sun are shining more and more directly, rather than angled, thereby bringing “more warmth” and therefore a gradual thawing during the sunny days.
This day was no exception and, in this picture, we can see the abstract reflection of the sun, shown in the highlighted white bands, being pulled over the rocks by the force of the water. Still, while the air temperatures were still frigid, the warmth of the sun began the thawing of the snows giving way to the crystal-clear waters in the streams. Spring was not far away.