Sandcastle Maestro Gifts

A child builds a really long wall along a beach.

"Nation-building never works."

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

Holiday time.

'Unbelievable: My cowboy expects me to drop everything and come running when he whistles...'

Hiding the electronics.

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

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

I rather like bucket and spade holidays.

Bathing-men attend to women on the french coast

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

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.'

Happy holidays for kids.

Statue turns into conductor when it snows.

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

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

"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

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

Mozart's very good, but can't beat Rossini for sandbox activities.

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

Summer reading for the family.

"Dad! I can't believe we come to the beach and you set up all the way out here! I can barely see the ocean...we're so far from the wa..."

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

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

'Frank Lloyd Wright's childhood.'

"I said, 'I'm not on duty! I just came back to get my flip-flops.'"

'Beach snowman.'

Feeling for shells