Snowflakes

"They say that every snowflake is different.  

If that were true, how could the world go on?
How could we get up off our knees?
How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
~Jeanette Winterson

Almost every winter I have to post some photos of

actual snowflakes taken by the renowned 

Wilson Bentley.  He was an American farmer

and snow crystal photomicrographer who

captured over 5000 snow crystal images and ultimately

published 2000 of them in a book in 1931.

The book, titled Snow Crystals, is still in print today.

I have a new paperback version of it.  

But I have a first edition copy on my wish list. :)

"Quick!  The first flakes are coming, the couriers of the

coming snow storm!  Open the skylight and directly under it,

place the carefully prepared blackboard, upon whose ebony

surface the most minute form of frozen beauty may be

welcomed from cloud land.  The mysteries of the upper air

are about to reveal themselves, if our hands are deft

and our eyes quick enough!"

Wilson Bentley

1865-1931

I noticed that his book was published the same

year he died.  I'm sure he found great satisfaction

in living to see that accomplishment!

• Sparkly
• Nippy
• Occurances of
• Winter.
• Frozen
• Light and
• Airy
• Kisses on my
• Eye lashes :)

Snowflakes remind me of the verse, Psalm 19:1,
 "The heavens declare the glory of God;
 the skies proclaim the work of his hands." :)

♥