Even when you live in a great place, sometimes you just need to get away and do some things you can't do at home. In our case, that means a campfire in the evening followed by sleeping in a tent near the water. Brimley State Park is a great fit for us: not to far away, quiet and beautiful.
The park is on the shore of Lake Superior and has a great sandy beach - a beach that is a great place to collect drift wood.
The park is on the shore of Lake Superior and has a great sandy beach - a beach that is a great place to collect drift wood.I love to use driftwood in my art, it's so light weight and has such interesting markings and patina after it's time in the lake.
It's been so cold that I suspect there haven't been many visitors and there's a lot of reeds, driftwood and other objects on the shore.
This piece really caught my eye:
And I was inspired to create an ephemeral "environmental sculpture" ala Andy Goldsworthy:
The Viking marauders landed at sunset and alas, were never seen again, their ship destroyed by the waves of Lake Superior in the night.
When the creative muse speaks, the wise artist listens - my sculpture may have only survived a few hours, but the memories will last much longer!
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