Seeing

“Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes

were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a

shame that this beauty should not be seen and

appreciated by others. Every crystal was a

masterpiece of design and no one design was

ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that

design was forever lost. Just that much beauty

was gone, without leaving any record behind."

(Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, 1925)

"My fascination with snowflakes was renewed when I recently read that they are not white. Their brilliance surpasses our own vision. Each one contains millions of tiny, clear, light-reactive prisms. Imagine millions of prisms. What a sight to consider. While these prisms break up the light that strikes them into all the colors of the rainbow our own eyes see “white” instead. With all the mystery of such splendor as snowflakes, I learned that we don't see the half of it. The millions of prisms creating millions of colors in each snowflake are too beautiful to even perceive."

 (Samuel J. Alibrando, Nature Never Stops Talking)