2023-12-18

Flake Appreciation Day 2023

Scandinavian Stylized Snowflake    
Flake Appreciation Day is an annual December 18th observance here in the US. It celebrates the complex beauty of snowflakes which are admired by the masses for their unique forms which populate the earth each time there is snowfall.

The day orignates from the work of one Wilson Bentley of 1865 Jericho, Vermont. His exhaustive work on the snowflake along with the prolific set of photographs he left are a study in nature which has endured.

The Snowflake Man as he became known passed in 1931.

So if you're lucky enough to get snow every so often you may wish to study up on your snowflake morphology and what makes those designs different in the context of temperature, humidity, and ice crystals.

I enjoy the snow. We hardly ever get any here in South Carolina. The last major snowfall was that 3 foot we received around 1973 but we have had a few lesser snowfalls since then.

Happy Flake Appreciation Day to you.