1.   One particularly striking image, of a street seen from above, shows boys and girls scattered among ornate chalk drawings that cover the pavement.

2.   The temperature is five degrees, and two feet of snow already cover the pavement, as a picket line of chanting women confronts arriving legislators.

3.   Puddles of blood covered the pavement.

4.   There was music in the air in Harvard Square over the weekend, a sharp contrast to the snow which covered the pavements just seven days ago.

5.   White sheeting was draped over the wreckage and the pavement was covered with fuel oil.