Reflections of the Frozen North
The roads have so much salt on them it looks more like Bonneville (Salt Flats) than Boston.
Everybody is ticked off, sick of the cold and the dark.
Kids are peeved because although it snows, there's not enough accumulation on the week days to give them snow days.
Ice and snow cling to plexiglass in the pavillon level at Fenway Park.
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Old timers no longer race out to buy eggs, they just complain about the prices. Grandma never leaves the house, afraid she's going to fall.
Priorities are out of whack. The day before Valentine's Day is icy. People race around the Commonwealth, not looking for boxes of chocolates, but bags of Ice Melt.
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Weather maps look like acid trips with blues, greens, yellows, and pinks. Oh, that polar vortex . . .
A ray of sunshine filters through the seats at Fenway Park.
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A Bob Dylan movie is up for eight Oscars, but nobody seems to be paying any attention to the Hibbing, Minn., native's sage advice.
'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,' he sang in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues.'
But take heart Boston. The sun, when it graces us with its shining presence, is getting stronger every day. Temperatures next week are forecast to be above freezing.
The clocks change on March 9 giving us 6:44 p.m. sunsets and the Red Sox opener is less than 4 million seconds away.
A runner in shorts approaches the snow covered statue of Samuel Eliot Morison on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
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A young girl waits for a train at South Station.
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Pedestrians slog along in the snow outside an MBTA entrance near South Station.
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A sailboat is locked in ice in Dorchester Bay, just off Squantum. Meteorologists say this winter has been the coldest in the last 10 years.
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A homeless person heads for a shelter on Mass Ave.
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A man and his dog take a nap on a soggy Hanover Street in the rain.
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A Monet-like view on Upper Newbury Street as snow changes over to freezing rain.
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A pedestrian makes his way down Massachusetts Avenue during an icy rain after an overnight snowstorm.
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