Snowflakes Up Close: A Small, Fragile World. If you’re one of those people who likes to ponder things while looking out a frosty window on a cold winter day, these pictures will clear up one of those long standing wonders: each snowflake really IS unique.
Some look like roman columns, others circuit boards or spaceships. Taken under high magnification using a microscope, these images bring a fragile and beautiful world into view. See Also HARMFUL VIRUSES MADE OF BEAUTIFUL GLASS. Amazing-sunseat.jpg (JPEG Image, 960x639 pixels) Green Lake - An Austrian Lake That Is Used for Hiking. A rare natural phenomenon turns one of Austria’s most beautiful hiking trails into a 10 meter-deep lake, for half the year.
Located at the foot of the Hochschwab Mountains, in Tragoess, Styria, Green Lake is one of the most bizarre natural phenomena in the world. During the cold winter months, this place is almost completely dry, and used as a country park where hikers love to come and spend some time away from urban chaos. But as soon as temperatures rise, the snow and ice covering the mountaintops begin to melt, and the water pours down, filling the basin below with crystal-clear water. 0rOhW.jpg (JPEG Image, 960x720 pixels) - Scaled (87. GAtsb.jpg (JPEG Image, 2869x1933 pixels) - Scaled (33. iHxM0.jpg (JPEG Image, 1600x1200 pixels) - Scaled (54. VnesQ.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280x1024 pixels) - Scaled (63. FlTZl.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280x1024 pixels) - Scaled (63. 1e9hs.jpg (JPEG Image, 2194x1686 pixels) - Scaled (38. BlMvB.jpg (JPEG Image, 1904x1448 pixels) - Scaled (44. 339HF.jpg (JPEG Image, 1920x1200 pixels) - Scaled (54.