S is for Snow

I happen to be living in Canada. Land of the moose, beaver, eh, and snow. Everybody loves moose, beavers, and saying eh, but nobody seems to like snow. I don't understand why. Snow is so unbelievably wonderful and delightful, pretty and so unbelievably beautiful. Canadians seems to grunt when I open the window and practically scream,
"ITS SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
What's not to like about this beautiful thing that delights the eye and tempts you with its white finger to come out and in your pyjamas, fall down and make a snow angel when you wake up? That people can simply ignore that wonderful feeling, is quite sad really.

Snow crystals are born in the clouds when water vapor freezes on a particle of dust, a floating bit of bacteria, or another solid material. When cloud temperatures are at the freezing point or below, and there is an ample supply of moisture in the air, ice crystals form around a core particle. As water vapor condenses and freezes, the complex pattern of a snowflake is born, one molecule at a time. It is here that water molecules bond together into stable crystal structures.

I'm sure that most people are familiar with the saying ' Ther are no two snowflakes are alike'. Some people may say that it's not true but they're worng. It most likely is true. You see, snowflakes are so unbelievably complicated that you might take a glance at two and say,
"Hey! those two snowflakes are exactly alike!" But actually, when you look at them under a microscope, you'll find that they are actually quite different. Also, there are so many snowflakes out there that looking at all of them would be like counting all the grains of rice that have ever been eaten in this planet.

"How can you not like snow?" I find myself asking many people very often. They always seem to answer that they don't like looking at it for four whole months in a row. Well, when you've come from England, where it seems like it's always a grey sky, drizzling, and hovering around 5 degrees, you appreciate the brilliant whiteness and the blue sky with the sun shining, making it so much nicer. Now with global warming, Canada might not have any snow in fifty years, who knows? If that happens, The Canadians will be the ones who miss it most.

Life lesson:
Don't take everything for granted, it can dissapear in a blink of an eye.