Having graduated from being a simple winter plaything, the Holy Snow disk revealed its value as a background for still life photographs. Almost any object, when placed on the bright red surface of the disk, acquired a strange grace, an eccentric beauty.

A handful of brookstones in a glass vase set on the disk are transmogrified into a tribute to an Old Testament oracle. There was a time when priests, having been asked a difficult question, would consult the Urim and Thummim stones; three stones...one signifying "yes," one signifying "no," and the last signifying that no answer would be given…were put in a receptacle. The priest would repeat the question and draw out one of the stones.

Life was less complicated in those days. Three stones, two answers, one equivocation. That was sufficient. Not anymore. Now we require a mort of stones even for the simplest of questions. But the stones would just be stones if not for the Holy Snow Disk.