This is the first year I can remember without any snow at Art Toscana painting vacations in Italy. However, we haven’t been deprived of rain and this week there is some snow on the Apuane Alps which you can see from Art Toscana, painting holidays in Italy. The little babbling brook, where in the summer, our guests at Art Toscana painting holidays in Italy, would paint the pretty scene of water truckling across the rocks, is now a gushing torrent of giant waves crashing against the riverbanks.