Breakfast alfresco: A New Yorker snacks amid tables of piled snow in Bryant Park as the Big Apple digs out from the big dump of '06.

The sudden appearance of white powder in the nation's capital forced no evacuations, but it did cause a little panda-monium at the National Zoo. It was 7-month-old Tai Shan's first snowfall, and the cub and mom Mei Xiang made the most of it.