Silently and softly during the dark night the snowflakes have found new homes and covered the ground with a blanket of pure white. It is unbelievable to think of each snowflake as different. I take out my little Snowflake book to look at the beautiful pictures and read some facts. Like, the most symmetrical crystals are found during light snowfalls, with little wind, when the weather is especially cold. Snowflakes can have six branches or twelve but never eight. Snowflakes are crystallized forms of ice with many shapes and some looking like stars.
A symmetrical snowflake is not a raindrop, but rather a single crystal of ice that grows directly from water vapor in the air. The process takes about fifteen minutes, as the snowflake slowly drifts to earth.
"Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eyes down level with her smallest leaf
and take an insect view of its plain."
-Henry David Thoreau
I love walking in the snow and seeing the beautiful patterns it makes on trees. Many people are out shoveling and children are out playing. It is Saturday morning and Oliver will be returning from his surfing adventure and be back at work next week.
Dad and I head off to the library for some light reading. lol
Let's see listed below are the books I took out:
God's Problem, about pain and suffering,
Startling Beauty, a journey from rape to restoration,
Mary Madeline, a visionary figure who was fully immersed in the mystical teachings that
shaped Jesus' own teachings and a woman who was a religious master in her own right.
Last but certainly not least a wordy tome on The Mother of God, A history of the virgin Mary.
Walking in the snow makes we feel like a child again full of wonder and delight. My walk had changed from seeing the fall deaves dancing and twirling to see the quiet beauty of the snow all around
A 420 page book about how and wqhy Mary became important, as important as Jesus to some, over the years after the death of her son..
Off to Gracepoint Church.
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