Though it’s difficult for us puny humans to comprehend, most natural processes take milennia to unfold. So even though we invented movie cameras to slow down lightning-fast phenomena, they can also be used to speed up frustratingly slow events. Witness, for instance, Wired Science’s listicle of the Top 10 Time-Lapse Nature Videos, our favorite of which is this fun video of the 2006 snow storm in Denver: