Teichner Preserve is a nature preserve owned by The Leelanau Conservancy. As I explained in a post in 2019, the property was donated to Conservancy by CBS News reporter Martha Teichner, whose family lived in northern Michigan before Teichner and her mother moved to East Grand Rapids (following the death of her father). It was in Grand Rapids where she got her first on air job in television news (WZZM). The Detroit Free Press has a wonderful story about Martha Teichner, which you can read here.

I have been drawn to the Teichner Preserve for quite some time. It is a small area with a short trail that leads to Lime Lake. What draws me there are the cedar trees on the shore of the lake and the mass of exposed roots that hold them up (barely). The trees lean every which way while the roots keep them from falling into the lake. In 2021, a photo I took in the Preserve, which I called “Gathering Place,” was published by Lenswork Magazine in its book “Our Magnificent Planet.”

I have never visited Teichner Preserve in the winter, that is until yesterday. Other than a deer or two that left tracks in the snow, it did not appear that anyone had taken the trail in the past several days.

The snow was deep, but the pathway was beautiful as snow flocked the trees and bushes.

I was eager to see the what the scene on the shore looked in the snow. It did not disappoint. Here are three photos of one of my favorite places in northern Michigan.