It doesn’t happen often that Florence gets a lot of snow, but when it does, it is magical.  I love a softly falling snow anywhere.  It transforms the world temporairily.

A well-known story about the young Michelangelo is that the famous artist once made a snow man in the Palazzo Medici courtyard.  I wish I could show you an image of that ephemerality.  Non possible, of course.

But, see here for a sense of what it might have been like on that day:

http://www.florence-journal.com/florence-video/snow-in-florence.html