The Wonderful World o' Photos

Amid the frozen tundra of the Lake Michigan beach in Glencoe, Illinois, this is one of my favorite photos I've taken.  In part, that's because I don't quite have a clue how this formed -- I know there can be big waves in Lake Michigan, but water isn't going to freeze in mid-wave.  Besides, this doesn't look precisely like a wave.  And none of that even explains the "vertical handles" on the left.  ("What's that all about?", as my friend Tiffany is often known to say.) 

However this oddity occurred, I loved the formation and its glistening.  This is what you get when you wander down to the beach on a lovely late-January morning in Glencoe.