On Sunday night, I had decided to head out to capture the sunset as a snowstorm departed and truly arctic cold descended on Marblehead.  The wind chill promised to drive temperatures to their lowest point in the past twenty years and so I promptly headed to the causeway where there would be no protection from the wind and cold…

As soon as I arrived on Ocean Avenue, I turned toward Riverbed Beach where the last rays of sunlight were bathing the frozen tundra before me.  After carefully negotiating huge drifts of snow, I found this scene before me of snow and frozen ocean water cracked and crumbled into a million beautiful pieces of white.

I framed the photo to include both Abbot Hall and Marblehead Light in the distance and showcase Marblehead Harbor slowly freezing over in the arctic cold.