My friend Andrew Sullivan gave me permission long ago to let me use his "View from my Window" feature -- and publish interesting photos sent in by others and post my own.

This is the scene outside my front door. Cold, white, lots of it. Caps off the really, really bad head cold I have -- which is why coherent posts from yours truly have been slow in recent days. Thanks to my team for picking up the slack while I've been sick.

Hope those of you in the Northeast corridor blanketed under all this find a way to have fun in it. But be careful -- have already seen a bit of never-driven-in-snow idiocy this morning.

-- Steve Clemons