Thunderstorm

Tap dance gives way to

Hip Hop

Under

Nuanced 

Dance moves.

Ever changing

Rhythm of

Salsa,

Tango,

Odissi.

Rhythm

Makes me smile.

♥

The Last of the Snow Flakes?

It almost looks like a milk weed pod opening up, doesn't it?

But it's a leaf holding a cluster of snow flakes!

Too bad I couldn't capture the detail of the flakes as good

   as 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.
I have to write a post about him every winter!
It's tradition! haha...and since winter is almost over, here it is!

The detail of his photos is really amazing considering

the primitive instruments he had to work with

between 1890 and 1930.

A camera hooked up to a microscope,

laying the flakes on a black board outside, and

working quickly before they were damaged or melted.

Wilson Bentley

1865-1931

• Sparkly
• Nippy
• Occurrences of
• Winter.
• Frozen,
• Light and
• Airy
• Kisses on my
• Eye lashes 

 ♥

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." :)

♥

Frost

• Frigid
• Ruffles
• Of
• Shimmery
• Trim

Cupcake

Cake in a cup

Under

Pale pink

Curves of buttercream

A sprinkle of gold dust

Kitchen creation

Elation

♥