Christmas Gifts of Snowflakes Poems and Story Books

Do you like watching the snow from your window?

Have you gone hunting for unique snowflakes?

It is a different experience, a relief from the artificial glitz, concrete and other glittering structures so prevalent in our lives. Everything that comes in contact with our eyes these days is not so healthy and good.  Browsing a book on snowflakes and reading aloud the snowflake poetries to your kids and grandkids is definitely much healthier than watching the glaring television or VCR screen - not so healthy option for your strained eyes.

Thanks to the nature who has given some of the marvelous creations that inspire innovations, we have a life full of materialistic comforts. Creative inventions from birds that inspired airships, fish that inspired huge ships in the ocean and snowflakes which inspired the amazing snowflake poetry are some of the glorious things I can think about.

Once you get interested in snowflakes you ought to try the classic books on snowflakes and go through the extra-ordinary photographs of these hexagonal wonders. I bet you would love to read the technical and scientific causes of snowflake formations. Till then, read the snowflake poems aloud to your kids and enjoy them on a cold winter evening lying next to your fireplace settled with a cup of hot coffee.

Wilson Bentley was born in Vermont; he grew up having an extra-ordinary fascination for snowflakes. His passion for this amazing crystal droplet led him to develop a method for capturing the snaps of these amazing crystals. He put in a great part of his life in collecting information and presenting his discovery to the world in form of photographs, literary works and lectures.

He did all this in parallel to running his farm; he was a farmer cum scientist, his personality was an amazing combination of love for nature and science. Gifted and talented that he was, his passion for snowflakes gave the world an opportunity to understand this marvelous creation from a simple water droplet. While capturing the images he noticed that these amazing crystals have six sides and some of them had three, he also noticed that no two snowflakes are unique and alike. 

However, in rare precedents, the researchers have succeeded to find 2 identical snowflakes. In reality, it is most difficult to find two patterns of snowflakes that are exactly identical. Had Bentley been alive, he would have certainly wondered about the great similarity of these snowflakes, he in his life time could not find any two snowflakes that were identical or an exact replica.

You would love to check out the amazing stories of this great man called Wilson Bentley who laid the foundation for the research of snowflake and read them to your grandkids.