It was a warm, sunny, winter day and I was snowshoeing at Good Harbor.  Sunshine has been rare this winter and so has the snow but the "driftscape" at Good Harbor is always spectacular.  In this photograph it had not snowed for a week.  On that day I decided to explore the dunes because I like to see the dunes when it is sunny.  While moving across the ridges of the dunes, camera always in hand, I look for interesting things to photograph.  I saw this drift and the texture the wind created in the snow and I knew I had to take a picture.

–  Leif  Sporck, Suttons Bay, MI

Whaleback seen from the north end of Co. Rd. 669 on Feb. 9. Note how 
the hummocks have been sculpted by the waves.

Sleeping Bear seen from Empire beach on Feb. 9.

–  Chuck & Sue Cady, Suttons Bay, MI

View from Empire Bluffs of Lake Michigan and South Bar Lake

–  Rick Desrochers, Orlando, FL

We love Leelanau County for its beauty.  There are so many different types of scenery that just say…….wow!  A sunset, mist over a lake, a spider's web, a river, the beaches.   It just IS Leelanau!

–  Shelly Meyer, Zeeland, MI

The almost-lunar landscape of the giant blow-out atop the southern-most end (the Good Harbor end) of Pyramid Point.  At some point in the past this part of the dune collapsed, or avalanched down its own face, wiping out the vegetation there and leaving the 'scar' that is visible from Good Harbor beach today.  Then the tremendous winds here, scooped out a giant bowl, the rim of which I hiked last month, in October '09.  To proceed along the beach-side edge of the dune face to the south, one has to climb up another 125 or so feet; so about half of the dune that now forms this bowl collapsed, shifted, fell away, or ??? - for reasons I can't explain.  Like the almost perfectly spherical shoreline of South Manitou Island's bay, or the almost perfectly circular holes along Overby Road, there are geologic features in Leelanau County that just beg for explanations. 

–  Jim Chester, Okemos & Cedar, MI