SNOW IS MADE OF SYMBOLS.

It’s snowing here, but I only see pictograms. Natural geometry with beautiful irregularity. The six-fold symmetry is due to the hexagonal structure of the molecules in ice crystals. Photographed by Alexey Kljatov. See his technique, and more examples, here: https://goo.gl/eAnSti

Snow crystal is the precise term for what we call a snowflake, which is a more general term that also describes clumps of snow crystals.

A classification of snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren (c.1863).