~Window View~

~It's getting colder and colder here.

My window often looks like this when I wake up.

I don't mind the change in scenery....

as long as it doesn't last!~

It makes me think of my favorite "Artistic Photographer"....

Wilson A. Bentley.

(I did a post on this about a year ago, and thought I would "re-write" on him again.)

"I am a poor man except in the satisfaction  I get out of my work. In that respect I am one of the richest men in the world. I wouldn't change places with Henry Ford or John D. Rockefeller for all their millions! And I wouldn't change places with a king; nor for all his power and glory. I have my snowflakes!" (Wilson A. Bentley)

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Two years ago I bought my oldest son a book on Wilson A. Bentley...better known as "The Snowflake Man". Bentley spent his life (1865-1931) studying the science and magnificence of snow crystals. As a teen he taught himself to photograph snow flakes....and ended up with over 5,000 photographs of all different snow crystals...no 2 being alike!

I cannot imagine the time, dedication, let alone patience it would take to do something like that. 

Yet, why would he not? 

If possible, look at some of his work....it is absolutely incredible.

Each one IS different.

They're more than  just snow crystals. 

{My son took all these pictures for me.

I think Wilson A. Bentley is inspiring us!}