It was sunny yesterday, but the temperatures never got out of the 20s (F) and there were wind gusts of nearly 40 miles per hour. It was a beautiful – but uncomfortable – Valentine’s Day to walk along the shore. As you see here, Great Cove was flecked with whitecaps:
We even had some minor surf at Naskeag Harbor:
That’s fickle February for you. It can imitate spring or winter. It even can imitate both at the same time, as it did yesterday, when the wind came in like a March lion and the cold arrived like a January polar bear. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on February 14, 2024.)