Manistee River Winter

This was taken a couple of years ago and is along the North Country Trail following the Manistee River. It is very rare that we see blue sky after a snowstorm. Lucky I got there when I did also as the snow was starting to melt off of the trees just as I finished.

A bit of history is that during Michigan's logging era in the 1800's logs from the forests were rolled down the banks to the river and then floated to the mills in the spring. There were no trees left on the banks and the erosion must have been terrible.

Nikon D2x, f11, 1/100 sec., color filter which hasn't been used since.