New York City, March 21, 2017
★★★★ The cold gray morning at dropoff was still gray but no longer cold an hour later. Another hour or less, and reflected sun was adding new spots to spotted brickwork while the clouds at the zenith thinned toward blue. The afternoon sun was full and dazzling. A boy with a backpack leaped from the back of a taxi to the top of an ice bank and teetered there, trying to get his center of gravity to the vertical, then gave up and leaped in reverse before he could slip into the waiting puddle below.