Snowflake Bentley grew up in Vermont, where the average snowfall each year was 10 feet. He liked snow. So he would stay out in the snow and try to look at it through a microscope. He tried to draw the shapes of the snowflakes. They all melted before he could. He found a camera in a magazine that had a microscope on it. He said to his parents, "If I could get this, I'd be able to get pictures of snow." Finally, when he was 17 his parents spent their savings and bought it for him. Then he took pictures, and most of them didn't work. Finally one year he got it to work. He took lots of pictures of snow. He showed them to his friends and family and gave them to them for birthdays and stuff. Some people laughed at Wilson Bentley and some people thought he had a great work. One year his book was published when he was 66 years old. Less than a month later, he went on a walk to take some pictures of snow. On the way home he got sick. Two weeks later he died of pneumonia. He left the world knowing about snow and about snowflakes.
I liked how he kept trying even if it didn't work.
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