Sandcastle Architects Mugs

"We're a great team, Sash—you with your small and large motor skills, me with my spatial awareness and hand-eye coördination."

'I've never done this before.'

Summer reading for the family.

Child has practiced building sand castles in snow.

'Look out kid...re-building your infras-tructure...'

'Dad! There's oil in my sand pit!'

'I love the beach, but this damned sand gets in everywhere...'

'I'll give you 1.2 million for that!'

Holiday time.

"Trust me, the joy of having sand between your toes wears off after a while..."

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

"Nation-building never works."

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

Hiding the electronics.

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

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

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

I rather like bucket and spade holidays.

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

Sunbathers.

Young Picasso at the Beach

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.'

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

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

Happy holidays for kids.

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

"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.

Beach flirting