Sandcastle Architects Pillows

"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..."

"Nation-building never works."

'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.'

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

Hiding the electronics.

I rather like bucket and spade holidays.

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

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

Bathing-men attend to women on the french coast

Sunbathers.

Summertime

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

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

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

Happy holidays for kids.

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

"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.'

Beach flirting

Squirrel on the beach

Stonehenge Sandcastle

"City kids."

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'