Rare flakes

Rare stud snowflakes. These travelers from a great height are formed only in very cold temperatures.

In New York, an autodidactic research scientist named Vincent J Schaefer created the first artificial snowflakes in a "cold box" into which he breathed. The moist air of his breath condensed into snow clouds. Later, he actually caused snow to fall in nature by using dry ice.

The reader is also referred to avalanche, glacier, hail, sleet, snow blindness, snow line, snowplow, and snowshoe.

Sundown 15.13 p.m. CET

All flares of rebellion soon tramped about
all suds of revolt quickly died out.
Left was a longing to come to terms
beyond tires of desire and retribution.

Are we not best when we crave
the good we are at a loss to brave,
beyond the pollution of this shoal,
pointing direction without a goal,
free from reckless strife?

Sundown 15.08 p.m. CET

(interpretation of Hades and Euclid II by Harry Martinson)

Hade’s oven fell
onto flat land
passing arbitrary judgments,
burning in brick huts
- superficial gravestones -
victims of shallow treatment,
without solace from above
without support from the depths,
regarded of no value
regarded without redress,
regarded without measure of eternity.
Their wailing meets with scorn,
and the crown of measure, Euclid,
cries out, seeking Chronos’ sphere.