Heroes Not Zombies

This is one of my favourite photos. It isn’t a snowflake but a single water droplet which has frozen into this leaf-like pattern.

Isn’t it beautiful?

Doesn’t it make you want to pause and wonder, to be amazed at the pattern and form?

It always reminds me how the universe creates uniqueness everywhere. No other icicle will look exactly like this one. It will have appeared over a few hours, then it’ll be gone again as the ice turns back to water, and the water evaporates into the air. It’s like a kind of magic…..from the invisible, to the visible and back again.

One of my all time favourite books I’d recommend to anyone is David Wade’s Crystal and Dragon: the Cosmic Dance of Symmetry and Chaos in Nature, Art and Consciousness. Wow, that’s quite a title, huh? It’s a brilliant exploration of how the opposite forces of order and disorder, of discipline and wildness, play together to create all the beauty which surrounds us.