Snow in the desert just hits different....

In 1903, a man named Wilson Bentley attached a camera to his microscope and took pictures of individual snowflakes. He was the first to do so, and through his pictures we came to realize no two snowflakes are alike.

I find his photographs amazing. Snowflakes form, of course, when warm air collides with another air mass or weather front and condensation takes place.

But the water must have something to adhere to, so it grabs hold of bacteria or dust in the air, and upon freezing creates these beautiful, unique, very, very special, works of art.

Even better, it takes 100,000 droplets or so to make one snowflake, to make one of these works of art, fall to earth for us measly humans to see.

There's a profoundness in this - to me - in these amazing snow crystals. They come from a place so much bigger than us, built on things we normally find so obtrusive in life - dust and bacteria - yet are so small the naked eye can't even comprehend the intricate details until finally, they are weighted down and can carry no more.

Maybe the snowflake mimics a strength we all have, a beauty we inspire toward. One we'd know more clearly if we could only let the obtrusive pieces of ourselves, the pieces we try to sweep under the rug, out into the light once and for all.

Enjoy - https://www.si.edu/spotlight/snow-crystals - I promise, his pics are better than mine.