Chilly scenes of winter in Brooklyn.

Statue of Civil War General Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Grand Army Plaza.

A white pigeon finds itself almost perfectly camouflaged on a Park Slope sidewalk.

The view from my window this morning, after fresh snowfall overnight.

Chilly Scenes of Winter is the title of a 1970s Ann Beattie novel later adapted for the screen by Joan Micklin Silver as Head Over Heels, then remade by eliminating an unconvincing "happy ending" and re-released under the novel's title.