Nix

10 Responses to Nix

1. Tom in NY says:

   4 February 2012 at 9:55 am

   Rome in snow! Save that picture.

   Salutationes omnibus.
2. FranzJosf says:

   4 February 2012 at 10:52 am

   Sometime in the early 90′s I happened to be in Rome for Carnivale (Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras) when it snowed. I remember walking through the Piazza Navona, seeing the little children in their costumes running around having a blast while the older kids were having snowball fights. A wonderful memory. That year, Ash Wednesday having fallen near the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, I was fortunate to assist at the Papal Mass where they turned out all of the electric lights and where everyone had a candle for singing the Lourdes Hymn. St. Peter’s lit with thousands of candles! What a memorable first visit to Rome!
3. filioque says:

   4 February 2012 at 11:19 am

   It snowed all night and today the webcam is almost snowed in, only a few cracks allowing an image of the piazza filled with snow. I know it’s Saturday, but they used to work at the CDF on Saturday morning, so someone should get out there and clear the lens for us!
4. Mundabor says:

   4 February 2012 at 1:14 pm

   Rome under a blanket of snow is one of my dearest childhood remembrances, and a cherished image of my young age.

   It happens, literally, “a ogni morte di Papa….”; if the Pope is very healthy, that is…

   My relatives down there are all extremely excited.

   Mundabor
5. GOR says:

   4 February 2012 at 3:11 pm

   We did have it once when I was there in the 60s. No one could remember having seen it before. Of course we were all younger then…
6. mamajen says:

   4 February 2012 at 4:16 pm

   Yet here in Central NY where we are accustomed to a great deal of snow, we have had almost none. (I may or may not have prayed for that, though, on account of my ice dam-prone roof.)
7. shane says:

   4 February 2012 at 5:35 pm

   That would make a beautiful postcard.
8. Father K says:

   4 February 2012 at 9:52 pm

   How lovely – a real treat. When I was a student in Rome we did have some light sprinklings but nothing like this. I love the nativity scene covered in snow.
9. jflare says:

   5 February 2012 at 1:39 am

   *coughs delicately*
   I actually had to read a few comments before I noticed anything unusual….
   ‘Course a fair chunk of the picture has concrete that looks relatively white even without snow, so I had to look at less obvious areas to notice.
   Even then, ..um, well, snow-covered grassy areas aren’t precisely unusual for what I’m most accustomed to…. I had to consider the latitude and the location close to the Med before it seemed even a little out of place.
10. Matthew says:

    5 February 2012 at 10:59 am

    imagine what a few inches of snow must do to all the scooter and toy car traffic! shut down