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JuanJoseOle spotted this gentleman riding down Hancock Street in Quincy Center this morning, reports:

I guess he can't afford a winter hat or is hiding from someone. There was a cut out for his face with a Saran Wrap covering it.

Kelly reports from Downtown Crossing this morning:

Line of shrieking teens all down Washington St in DTX for So You Think You Can Dance auditions.

When and where was this photo taken? See it larger. From the folks at the Boston City Archives, of course.

A roving UHub photographer forwards this picture, taken around 4:40 p.m. yesterday, of the handicap parking spaces outside 12 Channel St., an Innovation District building owned by the BRA and EDIC.

They haven't plowed their handicap spaces since the blizzard.

The Boston Public Library has posted a series of Leslie Jones photographs of presidents in the Boston area, including Harry Truman campaigning in Boston in October, 1948, with J. W. McCormack, Gov. Paul Dever and Mayor James Michael Curley. Other photos include Franklin Roosevelt, Hoover, Wilson, Harding and Taft. Below, former President Teddy Roosevelt leaves a Beacon Street residence in April, 1916:

Brendan Kearney notes the impressive social media integration on the Silver Line this morning.

Yesterday was Drive Aimlessly through Quincy Day here at Chez Universal Hub. We couldn't help but stop to admire the donut shop with the best name ever in the history of donuts, on Hancock Street, and the 15-foot-tall giraffe made entirely of car bumpers outside this mall at Burgin Parkway and Granite Street.

Arturo Gossage took in the Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown today.

Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Marcelo, a roving UHub photographer, spotted this keyboard-stand space saver on Sanderson Place in Brighton this morning.

Earlier:
Random pianos will appear in random places this year.

Sgalla watched a kid waiting for a school bus on Kneeland Street this morning makes some snowy Valentine's Day hearts.

Local lad at Shaw's on Hyde Park Avenue has fun with fish heads.

Whiteout.

H/t Marc.

A confused citizen in Jamaica Plain seeks guidance from his municipal elders about that 48-hour period after the end of a snow emergency:

Does a parking spot placeholder negate a No Parking sign?

Cara ran across this chair (well, not literally) in Charlestown tonight.

Andrew Ching shares his ride down Pinckney Street.

Earlier:
Ski Mission Hill.
Downhill racing in Charlestown.

Ed. question: Anybody ski down Metropolitan Avenue in Roslindale?

A visit this morning confirmed that the weekend blizzard did little to dislodge the sailboat blown onto Carson Beach during Hurricane Sandy.

Josh Ormsby videoed his son Aidan, a 7-year-old first grader, on the slopes of New England's newest ski resort.

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you know where and when this was taken. See it larger.

For the February 8th Blizzard of 2013, Boston, MA I ventured out of my apartment around 6pm to wander the streets of Boston and take some photos of the storm, here's what I found going on in the city that night.

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H/t Mayhem.

Joshua Dawson spotted this ad-hoc toll gate in the Back Bay this morning.

Citrone photographed the cab line at Terminal C at 10:30 p.m.

Leslee spotted this couple on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall today.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Pilotblock managed to sidestep the snowsnake outside 631 Tremont St. this evening.

Lola Bean and friends weren't going to let the snow barre them from ballet practice in Watertown today.

Chris Adams, meanwhile, reports his son decided that once some of the driveway was clear, it was hockey time: