In days long lost
I scorned the frost
Because I felt so hardy.
But now I’m old
I feel the cold
And huddle in my cardie.
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A feeling for snow
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Edited by Richard Walker, Tuesday, 5 Jan 2010, 00:05
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow is a famous novel. But Wilson Bentley also had a feeling for snow and was the pioneer of snowflake photography, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley
A more recent photographer of snow crystals is Kenneth Libbrech, see
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16170-snowflakes/5
These images are all wonderful.
Looking at snowflakes many have asked how each of the six arms of the snowflake 'knows' how to keep itself in symmetry.
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