Lantern day today

Today is Lantern Day, the last day of the CNY Spring festival.  Gorgeous lights in wintery trees.  Red lanterns hanging all over.   And noise!  Fireworks and firecrackers everywhere, even on our tiny lane.   City streets toward CBD are in gridlock.   People just set off huge bunches of firecrackers on a random sidewalk, or maybe not so random, and step away so you can't even tell from whom they came.  There's an excitement in the air.  And it is cold: in the teens.  And windy with gusts up to 40 mph.  Faces need to be covered kind of cold.  Turtlenecks.  Fur collars.  Unfathomable in SF where temps were in the 60s today.  It's Beijing and it's fantastic!