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| colors; it was an eerie glowing arc against a clear black sky. I learned about the delights of water as a child. Some very ingenious and playful architect had designed the showers in our apartment house in New York City. The shower in my bathroom not only had the normal shower head on top, it had two little aimable shower heads on the |  | ||
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| rainbow appear in the fine droplets right at one's feet. There are also the brilliantly colored rings in the sky whose pieces are called sun dogs, and also the larger diameter rings around the sun or the moon that are created by ice crystals very high up in the sky. So many effects of ice crystals are beautiful: the frost that occurs on the windows, the large snowflakes that fall and rest on a black woolen coat. And then there is ice, the kind that we can skate on. (In New York when I grew up the trolley cars all used to carry a little triangular flag whenever the ice on Central Park lake was thick enough to be safe for skating.) Also, spectacular things happen with glaciers; the ice at the mouths of glaciers is always brilliant blue and green, with water pouring out from underneath. In sub-zero weather tiny ice crystals of frost make brilliant sparkles on the | |||
| side. In addition, it had a nozzle that shot water up from the bottom. And finally, wonder of wonders, each of the six circular rings that formed the brass structure of the shower was drilled with myriads of little holes so that when one opened the appropriate valve the entire shower structure would add a gentle spray to the more forceful ones from the top, sides and bottom. It is not just the ability to luxuriate in watery environments that captivates and addicts us. What a beauty it is to see a misty waterfall or a powerful cascade. How fine it is on a bright sunny day to hose one's garden and have a | |||