Photo by artist NAOMI CLARK of the blanket she designed as part of the Fort Makers collaborative art project.

The scene recalls balmy beach days comforting to today's blizzard-bound Northeasters (though not where I am writing this, where the storm has turned out to be so far yet another hyperbolic scam).

Too bad for the throngs who might have been looking forward to several days off from work, or even insurance fraud.

Meanwhile, the colors of this group's idiosyncratic blankets will warm us up.