The Beauty of Imperfections

Unexpected connections form a unique jewelled design.

The window before me becomes a transient shrine.

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Nature draws me the map of how things work.

Delicate repeating patterns are not simply a quirk.

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Tomas Hood said ‘Frost is the greatest artist in our clime

– he paints in nature and describes in rime.’

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A persistent wind on mountain tops forms rime, a rough, condensed, thick layer of ice.

Frost is not such super-cooled water. It is nature's 2D Mercator projected sublimed crystal ball, quite concise.

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Imperfections obstruct the way the ice crystals yield,

making ice feathers appear on a cold windshield.

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The marvel depends on restructuring building blocks: two hydrogen and one oxygen.

They form plates and columns beneath hexagonal rings. The prism faces let delightful patterns begin.

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Imperfections cause directional changes, when conditions are at or below freezing.

Obstructions seed the phenomenon of fractal design, with an effect that is pleasing.

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Expanding multiple-dimensional ice crystal dendrites form scales, needles and ferns.

Branching dendritic connections also describe how this idea, in my mind, innocently turns.

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In the mystical mix of air pressure, temperature and humidity,

ephemeral frost and humanity share a tangible and fragile quiddity.

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It is in the cold dead of winter, that new creations prepare to be born.

Heed: When the fire of a heart is frozen, moist tears inside too transform.

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Tears can become rime or sublimate, reforming a thin, ancient crystal hoar frost.

Caution: If the heart’s window is glazed over or insulated, the new order is lost.

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Watch: Obstructed water follows the path of least resistance in a stunning bedazzling way.

Crystalline swirls and spirals form landscapes that celebrate a winter wonderland day.

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Proceed Carefully: Before driving forward, you must clear the window completely.

But first witness how nature works: concretely, neatly, discreetly and sweetly.

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