The winterscape on Lake Michigan can be quite unusual.  I have to admit that I don't make it out there quite often, as close as we do live to the lake, because quite frankly, it's usually pretty darn cold.  Yesterday, though, was perfect winter beach weather.  It must have been a balmy 40 degrees out there.  I took advantage of the thaw (and being locked out) and visited not one, but TWO beaches that I've been familiar with since my teen-age years.  This one is at Gillson Park in Wilmette, right by the Baha'i Temple.

I'm not a beach person as in someone who likes to go there on sunny summer days, but I do enjoy going there at times when not many other people do, like late at night or in the winter.  My kind of beach will always be the grey, misty kind, preferably decorated generously with craggy sea stacks and faded driftwood.  Yesterday's beach came close to replicating the mood for me, though.