One of the most wonderful aspects of the Christmas holiday is when someone special in your life shows how much they know you with the perfect gift. It isn’t so much the monetary value of the “thing†but a statement of clarity in how well you are known and loved.
My artist daughter got me a number of fossils, and precious pieces that really made my day special but the most beautiful from an artistic perspective were these wonderful Bismuth crystals. In case you have never seen them, they are a naturally forming metallic crystal that forms these amazing shapes while cooling and then oxidation adds the wonderful colors to the surface that you see here.
Not that my own sense of wonder needed reinforcing but once again, this spectacular world we live in found a way to display its beauty through yet another magical form. Beauty is not always animal or vegetable, with mineral clearly shining brightly in such a precious manner.
I hope these images add a little color to your week!
