Winter in Sturgeon Bay

Known as a popular summer vacation destination, Sturgeon Bay and Door County display a quiet, profound beauty in the winter months. The landscapes, which appear trapped in a cold lifeless gray, are quietly transformed into beautifully rich colors when bathed in the rising and setting sunlight.

The cold, hard steel of the ships, tugs and industrial buildings seems to fit perfectly in the stillness of the winter months.

The historic downtown is lit for the holidays allowing for the turn-of-the-century architecture to create a nostaglic Christmas Village look.

The old Midland Coop on the West Side - my favorite building. It speaks of the rural nature of Sturgeon Bay. The structure has large planes of corrogated steel that catch light and lay back in the shadows beautifully.

See also: Door County Sunsets, Sunrises, Sturgeon Bay, Quiet Giants (barns), Sturgeon Bay Traffic Report (ship traffic), The Crane,
and Door County Doors posters and notecards.

Our friend Fred Wittig (who lives on an island on Sturgeon Bay) took these incredible photos of ice crystals forming on the bay.