When a snow crystal lands on your jacket or tongue, it almost seems to disappear as it melts. Sometimes a whole mouthful of fluffy, clean snow seems like only a few drops after it has melted. To find out, fill a paper cup to the top with snow. You may want to try several cups with different kinds of snow, one fluffy, one wet and heavy, and so on. Let the cup sit out in a warm place and wait for the snow to melt.
Snow usually produces about one inch of water for every ten inches of snow.
Stella was very content being a piece of dust on the banks of the Logan River. One day, when it hadn't rained for a long time, the wind picked Stella up and away she flew. Stella began to feel very cold and realized that tiny water drops began to freeze on her and grow into ice crystals. As Stella was swept up higher and higher she began to see beautiful star-shaped crystals of ice all around her and wondered if she could be as beautiful as they were. If Stella could have seen all of herself at once, she would have known that she was a star-shaped crystal that glittered like a diamond in the sunlight.