Sandcastle Architect At Heart Gifts

Hiding the electronics.

"Nation-building never works."

Holiday time.

'Why couldn't you just give him a bucket and shovel?'

'A little piece of advice, Verl. . . cut your sandwich loaf on a diagonal . . . that way people will think they're gettin' more.'

I rather like bucket and spade holidays.

"Mom! Don't think of me as covered with sand. Think of me as sugar coated."

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

Young Picasso at the Beach

"If you hold a shell to your ear you can hear the ocean..."

Sunbathers.

Bathing-men attend to women on the french coast

Summertime

'Hang on a second, I think I have a sand castle in my shoe.'

'we must be near the water because I see a sea gull.'

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"In the current market, it's just more practical."

'If that's a proposal, I accept!'

Happy holidays for kids.

"Make a sandcastle with you? Of course darling. What about Thursday 3.15pm?"

"I don't care if you saw this in a western..."

'He's going to be an estate agent, just like his Dad.'

Squirrel on the beach

Ernie likes to fix things around the house. Just today he's fixed two sandwiches, three sundaes, and some microwave brownies.

"Yeah, that's right. I'm the sandman. Where did you think I was getting my sand all these years?"

Beach flirting

Stonehenge Sandcastle

"City kids."

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

Summer reading for the family.

'Alex - I didn't know you freckled.'

'Beach snowman.'

"What're you talking about? I love the beach."

'Think, Billy - where did you bury Dad?'

"What did you just say? Did you just say 'Christmas'?!!"