Renee Graham spotted this helpful sign at Dorchester's Byrne Playground today.

Earlier:
Winter is coming - and with it the return of the 48-hour space-saver rule.

Photo of a father with an interesting way to teach his daughter to skate at the Charles Hotel.

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:

Dick Albert educates us:

... Sleet is small pellets of ice that bounce as they hit the ground and the ice pellets do not stick to objects. Freezing rain is liquid that falls as drops and freezes to objects upon contact. ...

Escapes with just a glass sliver in his eye.

Michael's train into Boston on the Worcester line was more than two hours late yesterday - which includes 90 minutes just sitting on the tracks in Newton:

We're told the train's breaks can't handle the cold, cold temperatures of a Massachusetts Winter. Eventually, a later train has to push us into South Station. ...

Maureen Rogers reports the shocking news that post-snow space saving (and the attendant keying of violators) is Just Not Done on Beacon Hill. But that also makes possible miraculous stories of human kindness.

L Dawg marveled at the stretch of virgin snow outside his apartment building. Only one thing to do:

... One entire stretch of road was untouched like this, and so, with the glee of a six-year-old, I spent about five minutes stomping all over the place, deliberately ruining the picturesque view. What was once several hundred square feet of continuous white was now pockmarked at regular intervals with holes, pits in the shape of my boots. ...

Marty wonders if the town of Brookline is just going to wait for the spring thaw to take care of Babcock Street along the parking lot in Coolidge Corner:

... [I]f this is community property that doesn't fall under the aegis of a landlord, then doesn't this strip of sidewalk belong to the town of Brookline? And if the weather's been warm the past two days, wouldn't it make sense to clear the sidewalk now? ...