Spoonful of Sugar: White as Snow

“His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.”

Matthew 28:3

I have a photo book all about snow. Each page shows a highly magnified and perfectly lit snowflake. Every single snowflake forms in supersaturated air, acquiring its unique crystal shape as it moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere as it falls to the earth. 

But did you know that individual snowflakes are not white? They are crystals, clear as glass. We perceive them as white because each crystal is faceted; as light passes through the crystal panes a diffuse reflection of the whole spectrum of light is seen by the eye which reads it as white.