Disturbance in the force

Today was a fairy-tale morning in Maremma. Hard to believe but the worlds are becoming one. 

It started to snow last night around 9 and at 8 am I ventured out in the weak sun to capture what I knew would be history by lunch: snow in southern Tuscany, a never-before seen phenomenon, not even by amore who has been here longer.

Listening about the snow alert for Rome for this weekend was one thing, hearing that on Monday, that is today, all schools and kindergartens in Rome would remain closed was another. But we are about an hour and a half up and much closer to the sea, less than 2 km away. Surely we won’t get any snow?

Wrong. The force has spoken and it was white. The new addition to the blues and greens was lovely, the animals were a bit alarmed, though.

I think I might start building a series of side car window glances, I like them. And the merged reflections of me on bestia too. More info on the photos in the captions.

Thank you for an unexpected disturbance, force. Just the drama we like: rare and temporary.

And in the meantime, Rome got 10 cm of it. Instead of our sun, it was snowing most of today there, and young and old went sledding in the Circus Maximus. You know, where they filmed Ben Hur. The day they are not likely to forget soon. And right now I saw that schools will be closed tomorrow as well.

Whereas amore was denied work – his train got stuck behind a broken train in the middle of his daily ride to Rome. Nothing else to do but turn around and return home – only to see that the train he’d intended to take had a 6-hour delay. Welcome to Italy in wintertime.

Yucca tree in new clothing.

No biking and barbecuing today.

Neither an outdoors meal.

The postbox and our hedge plant which I don’t call by its name because I don’t know it.

Neighbours where the donkey used to be. If they were quiet, I wouldn’t even spot them. Alas they complained loudly.

The prickly pear cactus and the horses. The white one knew what to wear today.

Lake Burano and the sea beyond.

Olive trees in an unlikely setting.

My daily view got sprinkled with fairy dust.

The Capalbio railway station.

A fusion indeed: of the cactus, oranges, obituaries and snow.

Who would have thought? Car plate modified by me.

You can see on the roof: quite a snowfall for the first time!

The window was frozen and I had to open the door to take the photo.

Last summer there were sunflowers to the right and it was HOT.

Towards the beach.

Snow made bestia melancholic.

Snow on the beach! Never before.

Towards Monte Argentario peninsula.

Back home. By 1 pm all snow was gone, except on our table.