I'll always arrive like this,
having no death to mourn,
but rather the life we share
nowhere beyond your room,
our love repeating itself
like snow I watch tonight,
which spins against my window
then vanishes into the dark.
— Andrew Motion
"Anniversaries: The Fourth"
This is the Hour of Lead–
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow–
First – Chill – then Stupor – then letting go.
— Emily Dickinson
The wind plays up; snow flutters down.
Twelve men are marching through the town.
Their rifle-butts on black slings sway.
Lights left, right, left, wink all the way.
— Alexander Blok
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow .
— The Book of Psalms, 51:7
Grief melts away
Like snow in May,
As if there were no such cold thing.
— George Herbert
Today's Word –
FIRN
There is a general rule of thumb that ten inches of snow will melt down to about one inch
of water. This is not an absolute rule, there is much variability from snow storm to snow
storm. To anyone who has shoveled snow off a sidewalk or driveway this is probably
obvious. Snow that falls during low air temperatures is "fluffier" than snow
that falls in temperatures nearer to freezing. Twenty-five inches of the fluffy, less
dense, champagne powder, that may fall in the Colorado mountains might melt down to only
one inch of liquid. By contrast, three inches of heavy snow that may fall on the eastern
seaboard may melt down to one inch. It is this soggy snow that seems to fall most often on
my driveway here in Ohio.
Some great Snow Crystal Micrographs,
like the picture above, are found at this 
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