ok well, that photo was taken about a week ago, on the shores of Lake Michigan.....we had gone out there to pick up rocks....( a particular passion of mine) and found some beauties....this was taken from the path down to the beach and yep those are giant piles of ice right at the shore....the next photo is snad dunes an wild grasses.....which have some lovely plumey type thingys...so we picked a bunch of those too !!!