As I'm looking out my window this bright January day, I see a blanket of snow.
Thinking analytically, snow's fundamental element is the snowflake. To the eye of the beholder, snowflakes may be beautiful. But are they unique?
As seen in the clip below, science and history has much to say about snow and snowflakes.
But chance and physics do not take away the snowflake's fleeting beauty. Often it's hard to find the words that describe the wonder of nature. And that's when the arts, such as poetry, take off.
Almost thirty years ago, I wrote a poem about winter, pondering a scene, such as what I'm looking at now:
So starts another thread - Poetry.
And on this poetic note, may I leave with this thought about the Creator:
For He saith to the snow,
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Other posts on this subject:
ELM (part 3) - St. Crispin's Day Battles in English History and Literature (2013)
Touching the Face of God ... (2011)
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photo: snow/everystockphoto.com
lovely ode, lovely graphics
interesting article
m
I didn't know you were a poet as well as a wonderful article writer. I'm not a poet, but I do poetry to exercise my use of the language and a my vocabulary.
Ron