Sandcastle Making Gifts

"City kids."

"Oh, wow....this is cool! What are you making?"

Stonehenge Sandcastle

"Nation-building never works."

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

Holiday time.

Hiding the electronics.

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

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

I rather like bucket and spade holidays.

Sunbathers.

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

Bathing-men attend to women on the french coast

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.

"You can build it with me, but you can't wreck it with me."

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

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

"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.'

"Just ignore it. It's a mirage."

Beach flirting

Squirrel on the beach

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

Summer reading for the family.

'Oh, come on - If you're gonna mess up my castle, take the whole thing.'

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

'I think dad is beginning to regret falling asleep on the beach!'

Feeling for shells

'Frank Lloyd Wright's childhood.'

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