February 11, 2012

The Continuing Adventures of the Roman Winter

Having taken my cue from Rome children, I was over-dressed this morning at 7 when I slipped down the hill into old Rome to see what wonders nature had deposited on my birthplace city.

I creaked as I walked, in five layers, including the wooly undershirt and the Moonboots.

Here is what I found.

P1320824 — Colosseum looking towards the Arch of Titus and Roman Forum

P1330142 — Marcus Aurelius surveys his city

P1330165 — Arch of Septimius Severus at the northwest end of the Roman Forum

P1320830 — Arch of Constantine and the Palatine

Arch of Constantine

P1320852 — Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine

P1320868 — Temple of Venus and Rome in the Roman Forum

P1320931 — Circus Maximus looking toward the Palatine

P1330007 — Arch of Janus with San Giorgio al Velabro in background

P1330035 — Four faced Janus sculpture on the Roman bridge onto Tiber island

P1330047_2 — Sant'Angelo in Pescheria with little snow crown

P1330049 — Theater of Marcellus looking towards the Capitoline

Last weekend, after the big snowstorm, the cats were not allowed out of the Largo Argentina cat sanctuary but today they were loose.

P1330073 — Pussycat paw prints at the Cat Sanctuary at Largo Argentina

P1330078 — Massimo at the Largo Argentina Cat Sanctuary

After decades of calling the Victor Emanuel Monument the “Typewriter Left Out in the Snow” it was gratifying to see the Typewriter actually out in the snow.

P1330103 — The Typewriter Left Out in the Snow

P1330106 — The Campidoglio steps are cleared of snow. The steep Ara Coeli church steps have already been cleared

The drip drip drip of fast melting snow was the metronome for me as I lowered my jacket zip centimeter by centimeter, till soon I was jacket free (gloves and hat were also shed.)

On my return home however, over a lusty lunchtime lentil soup, this began..

The drama continues ! Sleds out, hats back on, and off we go once again into the capricious Roman winter of February 2012….

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