sky

I recently finished another meteorology book. So fascinating....learning about entities bigger than your neighbors, than congress, than the catholic church.
In the last book, the most lasting tidbit I learned was that all precipitation results from condensation forming on one of the abundant dust particles constantly present in the atmosphere. One water condensed water molecule attracts another, and another, and yet another...and many many molecules later, the neighborhood weighs so much more than the other particles and forces can sustain...and what was once a part of our heavenly vision falls, violently or otherwise, to join us in this terrestrial chaos.
The most interesting tidbit from this recent book is that the frozen neighborhoods can be so delicate as to begin its fall in Calais and land in Eastport. So the next time you frolic in the fluff of the first snowfall, ponder that the flakes falling on your face started their life many, many miles away and rode the most efficient and wonderous public transportation available.