Last year, Ms 8 and I read a picture book from the library about "Snowflake" Bentley, a lovely, quirky book about a boy growing up in Vermont in the 1800s who was fascinated by snowflakes and became the first person to figure out how to photograph them. Well, courtesy yet again of the Cellar's Image of the Day, I found my way to the Earth Science Picture of the Day, and in browsing their archives, discovered the Bentley Collection held by the Schwerdtfeger Library. If you like snowflakes, this is a wonderful site. In hunting up the name of the picture book, I also found this site, which has a further digitised collection of Bentley images.

Ah, snow. Did I mention it was 35C here today? Snow has a definite appeal...