Journal 21- snow

At six o'clock the day is cold and young. The temperature is below freezing and little flurries are building up. After about an hour the snow flakes are binding together and there is nothing untouched by the snow. The snow can cause excitement, gloom, frustration, or complete joy depending on who it affects. Children go out to play in the frigid world during a snow day, while adults are clearing the unrelenting flakes from their aging vehicles. Everyone is bundled up to survive the harshest of temperatures, but they remain cold no matter what because it is Winter. The streets are slick and accident prone, so the safe, or intelligent, people drive slowly with great caution. The kids are constantly enjoying their day off and enjoying the day the snow has brought. It has brought opportunity to a day that otherwise would have been dreary and desolate. It can now be a almost magical time for all the children who are without any obligations for the next 24 hours. The white, fluorescent, and glittering crystals that were once descending gradually have now picked up rapidity toward the previously dismal region. The snow appears so immaculately as it falls, but the true fascination it causes comes from its wondrous properties. On a chemical level it is as simple as two minuscule hydrogen atoms bonded to an oxygen atom, but it is much more fantastical on a larger scale, especially to a person of ignorance who has never seen water in this nonfluidic form. It is said that each one of these hexagonal flakes, plummeting into and becoming one with nature, is different than its predecessor, yet they they seem so harmonious en masse. As the Sun shows its shining anterior, the snow begins to dissipate. But it is not scattering or growing farther apart; it is becoming water and just spreading over the land. As it departs from view it also leaves a memory of the Winter it corresponded with.