Today is Defenders of the Motherland Day in Russia, but snow removal crews don't get to enjoy the holiday-- more than 25 inches (65cm) of snow fell over the last four days, the most snow in 40 years.
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.” - Charles Baudelaire