It's like there are two dueling storms up there right now: rain and snow, and they're both doing their best to out-precipitate the other.

Steve Garfield videoed them.

A tree in the Public Garden at sunset.

The Globe reports a special city crew today removed:

220 milk crates, orange cones, lawn chairs, recycling bins, and other random objects that residents were using to stake claim to parking spots.

This is not South Boston. This is my street in Roslindale, where the folks across the way seem to add a new cone every year:

Pomsmith finds proof in this witch hazel at the Arnold Arboretum.

Evan reports on his trek (so no, he didn't fall through); he saw plenty of ice-fishing holes and a snowman standing on the ice in the middle of the pond.

Joe Driscoll stayed firmly on solid ground as he photographed Forest Hills Cemetery in the snow.

Looks kind of warm.

One of the statues on the Dartmouth Street side of the BPL main branch went with some ermine blankets to keep warm today. Inside, in the courtyard, Bacchante shared her fuzzy hat with the infant Faun:

More snow photos:
Leif Ericson in the snow.
Reading in the snow.
Frog Pond in the snow.
Fenway in the snow.
Back Bay in the snow.
Allston in the snow.
B trolley in the snow.
Fun with writing in the snow.

G posts a pair of photos of some exemplary Dot space saving, including one of a space heater used either to melt snow or save a space or both.

Quasify takes photos and comments:

... The kids on the street are leaving the bars drunk and friendly, and the dog was ecstatically mushing to some uncertain destination. I love Allston, particularly more so when a fresh coat of white covers it’s flaws. ...