Jan­u­ary 3, 2012, Min­neapo­lis — Craig Mar­tin shares a laugh with a client at Mug & Brush Hair De­sign in South Min­neapo­lis, Minn. on Jan­u­ary 3, 2012. Mug & Brush, which has been open since the mid-1960s serves both men and women.

A man and woman walk through an oth­er­wise de­serted sec­tion of the Min­neapo­lis Sky­way on Jan­u­ary 2, 2012. With New Year’s Day falling on a Sun­day, many down­town busi­ness were closed the day af­ter, in­clud­ing a con­ve­nience store, cof­fee shop, hair sa­lon, dry cleaner, staffing agency and a restau­rant on the sec­ond floor of the Camp­bell Mithun Tower.

Jan. 1, 2012, Min­neapo­lis — A man lays down in the snow to take a pic­ture of his cus­tom bi­cy­cle in Lor­ing Park near down­town Min­neapo­lis, Minn. on the evening of Jan. 1, 2012. Af­ter a un­sea­son­ably warm De­cem­ber, Mother Na­ture took a cold turn on New Year’s Eve, drop­ping 10 de­grees, an inch of snow and blow­ing wind gusts up to 35 mph through New Year’s Day, ac­cord­ing to the Na­tional Weather Service.