Tuesday
22Dec2009
Crystalline rain
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 10:08AM It won't surprise you to learn that guys who stay fixated on rain like we do are fascinated by the beauty of it in its crystalline ice form.
We agree with Thoreau:
"How full of the Creative Genius is the air in which these are generated! I should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius, full of the Divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
And Jeanette Winterson:
"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
So enjoy a few photos of these marvels from the heavens:
Happy Holidays from RainCatchers!
Images courtesy of SnowCrystals.com
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These images are so amazingly beautiful and other-wordly, they hardly seem possible in something which appears to be so entirely random - as a snowflake. Talk about creation. It's hard to comprehend how such beauty and form could originate in a shapeless cloud. Let it snow! Thanks, Burke, for expanding my mind again!